Memorial Сanon of the Liberty Struggle of 1917–1921 in Contemporary Novelistics: Formation and prospects
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https://doi.org/10.28925/2412-2475.2024.24.13Keywords:
canon, literary and memorial canon, national myth, historical knowledge, historical memory, thematic approach, modern novelistics, memory studies, “literature of resistance”Abstract
The tendency to revise, reconstruct, or remythologize national history / historical memory is a global intellectual and political trend, especially relevant for modern Ukraine under martial law. The research highlights the theoretical issues of delineating the memorial canon of periods important for national mythology, primarily the Liberation Struggles of 1917–1921, which are widely reflected in modern Ukrainian novels. Having applied the thematic approach to determine the objects of the memorial canon, we distinguish three meta-thematic groups of artistic works containing the main constructs of the national-state idea — the people, the leader (government), the army: their corresponding to otamania (embodying the mythologem of a unified social movement, national resistance); statehood, which is personified by the figures of prominent politicians (mythologeme of the hero-statesman); history through the prism of the activities of outstanding commanders (warrior archetype) and military units (USS, Black Zaporozhets, etc). The structural and artistic features of the novels “Marusya” by Vasyl Shklyar and “Review” by Olga Mykhaylova are analysed, in which the specifics of the artistic modeling of specific objects of memorialization and which can be interpreted as canonical are fully demonstrated. The perspective of further research essentially related to the studies of historical memory recorded / created in modern novelistics is also outlined.
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