TRAUMATIC MEMORY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: POST-TOTALITARIAN VERSION OF INTERPLAY (BASED ON THE CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN LITERATURE)

Abstract

The subject of the research is the influence of the traumatic totalitarian experience on the process of postcolonial cultural revival of the Ukrainian society. The author tries to find the main reasons of the crisis of the national identity with the help of its artistical interpretation in the literary works, which were written during the Independence period. The impotent is also posting point on the process of memory studies development in the Ukrainian scientific discourse, especially in the literary science.