БУТИ ЧУЖИМ: поетика пограничного існування у новелі Сергія Жадана «Immigrant Song»

• Authors: Olena Romanenko

Title variants

EN

BE DIFFERENT: The poetics of existence on the border in Sergei Zhadan's novel "The Song of the Immigrant"

Abstracts

EN

The article is devoted to discussion about identity. This is one of the important topics of contemporary Ukrainian literature and culture. Research focuses on the concept of edge identity. This concept is borrowed from the concept of Tony Judt. It accurately reflects the feelings of a Ukrainian in his country and in Europe. Such identity is formed not through geography, but through recollection. This aspect is well represented in the Sergii Zhadan’s novel "Immigrant Song". Novel is a very interesting example of the Ukrainian writer’s comprehension of the issues of Ukrainian identity within Ukraine and in Europe. In addition, in the article author analyzes the dynamics of identity formation in Ukrainian mass media, scientific researches and works of Ukrainian literature at the beginning of the 21th century. It is concluded that at the present stage two important directions in the Ukrainian literature can be singled out. The first direction is dedicated to the past, which promotes the development of genres of historical, historical and philosophical novel in high literature, historical and adventure novel in mass literature. The second direction is a broad scientific debate around identity issues, as well as a broad conversation about identity in mass media. These two directions contain the main considerations that are embodied in the story of Sergei Zhadan "Immigrant song". In this model, the identity of the main components is the geographical coordinates of " local " and "foreign" spaces, the border between Ukraine and Europe, the search for the character of "local" space, memories, reflection, values. The author proves that contemporary Ukrainian high and mass literature writes about the phenomenon of edge identity.

Keywords

EN

edge identity; Sergii Zhadan; oral hstory; shot story; memories; identity

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Zielonogórski. Wydział Humanistyczny
• Journal: International Journal of Slavic Studies Transgressive, Pragmatic and Speculative Horizons of Popular Literature and Culture
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-11

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Olena Romanenko

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Identifiers

DOI

10.34768/ayb5-qc68

Biblioteka Nauki

1376048