AUTHOR’S TALE AS SOURCE OF GENDER IDENTITY (BASED ON THE CYCLE “ONE AND A HALF WISH. TALES FROM YALOSOVETA’S TREASURE CHEST” BY MARYNA PAVLENKO)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of feminine and masculine constants, which are represented in the cycle “One and a Half Wish. Tales from Yalosoveta’s Treasure Chest” by Maryna Pavlenko and directed at the gender identity formation. Gender identity is supposed to be conformable valuable behavioral instructions, that lead to learning the roles and development of personality traits. Along with mythology and folklore, it is considered as a sum-total of standardized static roles and cultural ideals according to the way of life. In the fairy tale it is made with an articulated assessment of acts and actions of the characters, which depends on feminine and masculine semantics and is conditional on mental peculiarities of Ukrainian society. Maryna Pavlenko makes an accent on usual women’s and men’s traits, which start to acquire marginalized status because of development of democratic society, however, she doesn’t strive for hyperborlized positivity, that is a significant feature of the author’s tale text. Having a powerful moral-didactic potential, in the reader’s consciousness the writer’s tales make negative behavioral stereotypes urgent too, they are connected with moral character’s traits. In the cycle “One and a Half Wish. Fairy Tales from Yalosoveta’s Treasure Chest” Maryna Pavlenko represents her own outlook, shows ideal life model of the person, who has archaic views about relations and standards according to the gender area.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.28925/2412-2475.2019.135