THE LOST AND THE (RE)MASTERED: THE ARCHETYPE OF HOME IN THE ANTHOLOGY OF THE MODERN ACTUAL DRAMA “THE UNNAMED WAR”
THE LOST AND THE (RE)MASTERED: THE ARCHETYPE OF HOME IN THE ANTHOLOGY OF THE MODERN ACTUAL DRAMA “THE UNNAMED WAR”

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the role of the archetype of the Home in the artistic representation of trauma in the plays included in the anthology “The Unnamed War”. Poetological, archetypal, and psychoanalytical methods were used to achieve the goal. In the anthology “The Unnamed War”, two topos are permanently traced: the Home and the Maidan, but the content of the plays is mainly based on the artistic realisation of the archetype of the Home. In the dramatic works encapsulated by the theme of the anthology, the Home appears in the context of the development of the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The reconstruction of the archetype of the Home takes place simultaneously on three levels of semiosis (the Home as a material construct, as a carrier of the memory of the family, and as the embodiment of regional and national identity), which is thoroughly traced in the examples from each cycle of the anthology. In the context of the formation of Ukrainians as a nation, the Maidan topos also undergo a meaningful transformation: from the city’s central square to a symbol of indomitability and struggle, often becoming the subject of artistic representation. Therefore, the crisis phenomenon is not so much the loss of the Home as a material value but the destruction of the meanings associated with it, which is why we see the profound potential of the analysed archetype as a tool for the artistic representation of trauma in modern war drama.

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