Keywords
novel
identity
memory
war of consciousness
Soviet past
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Abstract
The article is devoted to comprehending identity in contemporary Ukrainian prose about the Soviet past. Using the example of Nina Kuryata’s novel Dzvinka, a Ukrainian born in the USSR, the author examines the reproduction of worldview confrontations between a “Soviet” (a representative of the unified Soviet population) and a Ukrainian with a national self-identity. It is indicated that the conflict of the work is based on the “doublethink” that divided the perception of the world between the official and personal truth in the USSR, and its consequence – “nothingness”, indifference. The essence of these processes can be seen in the structure of the novel’s imagery and content. Its components are “society” and “family”. The wars of consciousness take place around the concepts of life: homeland, spirituality, songwriting, holidays, language. The researcher points out that the forces of confrontation are equally important and each of them influences the formation of worldviews. It is emphasized that the main subject in the conflict of consciousness’s of the totalitarian world is language. The author believes that it is language that determines Dzvinka’s unwillingness to get rid of the burden of the “scoop”, although she tries to identify herself as Ukrainian. It is noted that the wars of consciousness have become a consequence of the wars of memories in modern realities.
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