Struggle with the Soviet Myths and Stereotypes in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature
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Oksana Pukhonska
Данни
Заглавие | Struggle with the Soviet Myths and Stereotypes in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature |
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Редакция |
Публикувано от Андрей Бояджиев |
Авторско право |
The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). |
Резюме
Ukrainian literature during last few years becomes a field of an ideological struggle against the ghosts of the past ad for the national identity. With the beginning of 2000th Ukrainian society had made a great step in the process of revision of post-soviet memory, which during years influencing the national consciousness. Myths and stereotypes, which discriminated Ukrainian history and national heroes, were serious obstacles for development a post-totalitarian culture, which after the collapse of the USSR gravitated towards democratic values. Besides of this, creating of artificial history by post-soviet authority was generally based on totalitarian memory, which helped them to use the population of the state in their own mercantile purposes. That’s why novels about soviet repression, interpretation of wars, starvation in Ukraine in 1932-33 of Oksana Zabuzhko, Volodymyr Lys, Leonid Kononovych, Vasyl Slapchuk and others were the reaction against renovation of soviet reality in modern Ukrainian society and culture.