The Auto/biographical Nature of Ukrainian Women’s Literature on the War in Donbas

Anna Gaidash

doi:10.18778/2299-7458.13.07

Autor

Anna Gaidash Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan; University University of Leipzig https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8200-2875

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2299-7458.13.07

Słowa kluczowe:

war in Donbas, Ukrainian women writers, auto/biography, documentary account, heterobiography, language choice

Abstrakt

In the close reading of Natal’ya Vorozhbit’s drama Bad Roads (2017), Yevgeniya Podobna’s book of stories and memoirs titled Girls Cutting Their Locks (2018), and Tamara Duda’s novel Daughter (2019), the author of the article examines the relations between subject and object of the Donbas war texts in the framework of their creation, auto/biographic nature, gender optics, and therapeutic effect. The goal of the study is to analyze how auto/biographical narratives employ actualization of life, leading to the fictionalization of drama and prose texts, which results in heterobiography or synthesis of auto/biographical narratives with heterobiographies. Mostly processed by professional writers, the documentary accounts of military experience of women characters convey the evidence of Zeitgeist, which forms a unique writing in modern war literature. The paper discusses the perspective of women, forms of undermining patriarchy, and rhetoric of “national autobiography” along with self-consciousness and self-reflexivity as markers of auto/biographical texts of Ukrainian women writers of the period in the selected texts.

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Biogram autora

Anna Gaidash - Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan; University University of Leipzig

Anna Gaidash is Professor in Literary Studies at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University and research fellow at Leipzig University’s DFGfunded project “Enfreakment as an Invective Mode in US-American Popular Culture”. Her research focusses on American Studies, Ukrainian studies, age studies, drama discourse and comparative studies in literature. She is the author of Discourse of Aging in US-American Drama: Problematic Field, Semantics, Poetics (2019) (in Ukrainian); Woman and war in Natalka Vorozhbyt’s drama Bad Roads (2017) (2023) (in Ukrainian); Magic in Fairy Tales by Emma Andievska (2024) (in Ukrainian); The New Woman in Short Prose by Olga Kobylanska and Edith Wharton (2024) (coauthored with Monika Denk).

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