Literary and educational activities of the DOBRUS association in the USA in the first decade after World War II

Abstract

This article attempts to find out the peculiarities of the literary style of artistic and artistic-journalistic works published in the USA in the first decade after World War II by the association of former Ukrainians repressed by the Soviets (DOBRUS). The prose editions "Ukhta-Pechora concentration camp" by Mykhailo Shkvarka, "Burning Medvyn" by Ivan Dubynets, "Hunting for a person" by A. Romen, "Laughter through tears" by Yurko Stepovyi were studied in this work.

The common features of the works, published by DOBRUS in USA are simplicity of presentation, attention to facts, figures, detalization in the describing the Soviet penal institutions. These works are examples of camp prose in Ukrainian literature, documentary, factual literature, traumatic writing. Their specific mission is to preserve the memory of the lost homeland, to tell the truth about the repressions of Ukrainians.