eds. Olha Voznyuk ‒ Kristina Vorontsova
Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, literature has served both as a means of revealing trauma and for documenting social and cultural transformations during times of crisis. This issue gathers studies by Ukrainian scholars who analyze these literary processes from an insider’s perspective and offer strategies for reconstructing and consolidating national and cultural identity. The articles devoted to the latest Ukrainian literature present a body of scholarship on wartime experiences, giving voice to diverse narrative perspectives reflecting the nature of both collective and individual trauma.
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Articles:
MARYNA RIABCHENKO
Combatant prose as an important component of the contemporary Ukrainian literary process
OLENA ROMANENKO
Narrative and war: The experience of contemporary Ukrainian literature
SWITŁANA HAJDUK
Discourse on the traumatic experience of Ukrainian internally displaced and refugee women: A Foe – A Friend – A Family by Iryna Feofanova
TETIANA GREBENIUK
The motif of orphanhood in the narrative of trauma and healing: Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s fiction about Russia’s war against Ukraine
OLHA VOZNYUK
Narratives of war in the poetry of Svitlana Povaliayeva and Yuliya Musakovska
TETIANA RIAZANTSEVA – YEVHENIIA KANCHURA
Poetic reflections of war in contemporary Ukrainian literature as the poetry of metaphysical perspectives
SVITLANA PIDOPRYGORA
Mission accomplished? Ukrainian superhero comics in times of war
YULIIA LABETSKA – MARIIA NIKOLCHENKO
National identity and resistance in Mykola Akhbash’s original and translated Rumeika-language poetry
OLESIA VEKLYCH
The topos of Mariupol in Ukrainian and Italian military literature: Comparative aspects
IVANA HOSTOVÁ et al.
Beyond the market: Translation and cultural resistance in Slovak periodicals
MILOŠ ZELENKA – KLAUDIA KLAMÁROVÁ
The Many Languages of Comparative Literature: A valuable contribution to discussions
of world literature
The full content of the issue with links to the individual texts can be found HERE.