Keywords
family
memory
emigration
occupation
war
trauma
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Abstract
The article examines the problem of identity self-search of descendants of Ukrainian emigrants in the United States of America. The author analyzes a documentary text by a contemporary American author who studies the history of her family, immersing herself in the most traumatic events of the last century. Her attention is focused on World War II, the Soviet occupation, repression, and forced emigration. This search for family memory is further intensified by the current Russian- Ukrainian war. The text’s plot is structured around several types of memory – individual, family, regional and Ukrainian national. It is in this system of coordinates that Megan Buskey endeavorsto understand her own identity and clarify those traumas from the past that directly influenced her formation and self-presentation in the modern world.
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