ҐЕНДЕРНІ ВИМІРИ ЄВРЕЙСЬКОЇ ТЕМИ У ПОЕЗІЇ ЛЕСІ УКРАЇНКИ
GENDER DIMENSIONS OF THE JEWISH THEME IN LESIA UKRAINKA’S POETRY

Summary/Abstract: In the article, Lesia Ukrainka’s poetry based on the Jewish cultural motifs and archetypalplots, mainly of biblical genesis, has been studied. Selected poems are being examined through thelens of imagology and gender theory. The author emphasizes gender nuancing of the Jewish themedeveloped in the poetry. In the study, the noticeable imagological, and gender aspects are beingconsidered as follows: the legitimation of national identity by gender interactions; a detection ofmothers’ competition under the patriarchal pressure; the discourse of a gender communicative abyss;the equalization, and the abolition of gender restrictions in order to create the idea of a person ofintegrity regardless gender values. In conclusion, it should be noted that the intricate social historyof the Hebrew women is being transposed into Ukrainian modernity in Lesia Ukrainka’s poetry.

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