How to extend “women’s age”? Reinterpretation of age-gender stereotypes in the Ukrainian postmodern fiction Cover Image

Как продлить «женский век»? Переосмысление гендерно‑возрастных стереотипов в украинской постмодернистской прозе
How to extend “women’s age”? Reinterpretation of age-gender stereotypes in the Ukrainian postmodern fiction

Author(s): Irina P. Betko
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: gender; Ukrainian postmodernist prose; Andrukhovych; Kononenko; Zabuzhko; Izdryk

Summary/Abstract: In the article on the base of works by Jurij Andruchovycz, Eugenia Kononenko, Oksana Zabuzhko and Jurij Izdryk it analyzes some representative stereotypes associated with the transition of women in the older age category. Postmodern writers revise patriarchal attitudes, which discriminate women in middle and older age. To this end, they use a wide palette of artistic means of the irony and the grotesque.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 148-164
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Ukrainian