Narratives of war in the poetry of Svitlana Povaliayeva and Yuliya Musakovska
Narratives of war in the poetry of Svitlana Povaliayeva and Yuliya Musakovska

Summary/Abstract: The beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasive war against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, shifted the focus of contemporary Ukrainian literature by placing the issue of war at its core, and the number of women authors writing about the war significantly increased. The female perspective on war represents a social trauma, since a lot of women are taking care of their children and close relatives while their husbands and other family members, among them also female relatives, are defending Ukraine on the front line. This article traces Ukrainian women’s war narratives, based on the poetry of authors with various social roles. The poetry collections by the well-established Ukrainian writers Svitlana Povaliayeva and Yuliya Musakovska will be examined under the narrative topics and problematics. The focus of this research lies in revealing the changes of cultural and societal values during wartime and the representation of the war trauma narrative in contemporary Ukrainian poetry.

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