Ukraina Wschodnia jako przestrzeń symboliczna w prozie Serhija Żadana –
na podstawie powieści Woroszyłowgrad i Mezopotamia
Eastern Ukraine as a symbolic space in Serhiy Zhadan’s prose based on the novels Voroshilovgrad and Mesopotamia
Author(s): Marta Zambrzycka, Paulina OlechowskaSubject(s): History, Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Culture and social structure
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Donbass; Kharkov; values; historical awareness; stereotypes; Donbas; Charków; wartości; pamięć; stereotypy
Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is an analysis of the three aspects of depicting urban space of Eastern Ukraine, focusing specifically on the Donbass region and the city of Kharkovas depicted in the novels Voroshilovgrad (2010) and Mesopotamia (2014) by Serhiy Zhadan. The urban space of Eastern Ukraine overlaps with the most important values that shape a person’s personality and affect her or his self-identification. The city space is also a “place of memory” and experiences of generations that influence current events. In addition to the historical and axiological dimension, the imaginative aspect of space is also important.This approach is used by the author to describe the urban space as a functioning imagination or stereotypes associated with it as opposed to its realistic depiction.
Journal: Studia Ucrainica Varsoviensia
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 8
- Page Range: 233-248
- Page Count: 16
- Language: Polish