Дискурс ідентичності в біженському романі Євгенії Кузнєцової Драбина
The discourse of identity in Yevhenia Kuznetsova’s refugee novel The ladder

Summary/Abstract: The article examines Yevheniia Kuznetsova’s new novel The ladder (2023), which isdedicated to the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war, in particular, the topic of Ukrainian refugees.The research is based on the principles of postcolonial criticism, trauma studies, and memory studies.The change in the national narrative and its purification from pseudo-imperial codes are observed inthe artistic world of The ladder. The painful change of identity in the novel is presented as a symbolicpath from forced migration home and thus to one’s own true self. One of the possible interpretationsof the eponymous ladder is substantiated. The author analyzes the trauma of forced displacementrecorded in The Ladder, which partially coincides with the painful loss of identity, the opposition ofthe Self to the Other (in the work, the correlation of the Other expands from the Alien to the Enemy),and the reliving of the survivor complex.

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