Architectonics of emotions
and subjective logic of national history
in the prose of Taras Shevchenko Cover Image

Архитектоника эмоций и субъективная логика национальной истории в прозе Тараса Шевченко
Architectonics of emotions and subjective logic of national history in the prose of Taras Shevchenko

Author(s): Artur Malinovskij
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki w Bydgoszczy (WSG)
Keywords: historical memory; melancholy; nation narrative; post-colonial trauma; resentment; emotional matrixes.

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the prose of Taras Shevchenko in the context of a new model of historicism, the formation of a national narrative based on post-colonial rhetoric, speech mimicry, muted resistance to the official imperial discourse. Prose is presented as the most convenient way to develop a specifically politicized language, with the help of which a nation pronounces itself in a narrative, in its emotional matrices, historical reminiscences. The story „Naymichka” is analyzed in the aspect of everyday refraction of history, translation of collective emotional experience, its spatial deconstruction. Melancholy and resentment are considered as narrative formations that shed light on Ukrainian history and the post-traumatic experience generated by it. Emphasis is placed on its inescapability in the conditions of colonialism and hybrid identity. The topological analysis of emotions contributes to the understanding of the national landscape through the prism of the internalization of history in the mental structures of the individual.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 11-29
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Russian