«Не руш моїх кіл…»: усвідомлена маскулінність як постколоніальний виклик (на матеріалі поетичного доробку О. Забужко)

• Authors: Наталія Лебединцева

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«Не руш моїх кіл…» (“Do Not Touch my Worlds…”): The choice of masculinity as a postcolonial challenge in O. Zabuzhko’s poetry

• Languages of publication: UK

Abstracts

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O. Zabuzhko’s poetry reflects the conflict of the masculine and feminine discourses, which in the paper are also defined as national and female symbolic levels. The feminine dimension is an organic, natural being, which manifests itself spontaneously — through emotions, feelings, passions, and true love. The national (masculine) dimension consists in perceiving the individual’s self as a part of the collective memory organized by the Logos. It postulates the values of the civic engagement and sees the world as an order, which structures the nation’s social and cultural legacy. O. Zabuzhko does not look for ways of reconciliation of the intellectual (rational, masculine, and male) and the intuitive (sensual, feminine, and female) levels of the personal self-realization and interprets them in terms of “either/or model” excluding any form of dialog. This peculiarity of O. Zabuzhko’s poetry is a product of the “colonial” and postcolonial contexts in which the Ukrainian culture has been developing for the last decades. The masculine discourse is a result of the deliberate choice, which the Ukrainian female writer has to make. She becomes the voice of the traumatized culture and does what the male writer must do — she tries “not to be but to write.” Such an inversion of the social roles causes the frustration of the female part of her Self.

Keywords

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personality; feminine/masculine; collective memory; identification model; trauma; личность; феминное/маскулинное коллективная память идентификационная модель; травма

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Posttotalitariana Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 2: Postkolonializm — tożsamość — gender. Europa Środkowa, Wschodnia i Południowo-Wschodnia
• Pages: 281 - 295

Contributors

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Наталія Лебединцева

• Чорноморський державний університет ім. Петра Могили (Миколаїв, Україна)