Original scientific paper
Folklore as a Way to Form a Readerly Identity: the Example of Ukrainian Children’s Literature in Yaryna Vynnytska’s Project “The Ukrainian Arc”
Katarzyna Jakubowska - Krawczyk
; University of Warsaw
Abstract
The article analyzes the role that references to folklore play in Ukrainian picture books. The question is to what extent these publications can be considered relevant social or cultural documents. Research corpus includes: The Bride by Yaryna Vynnytska and Yulia Tabenska;
In the Country of Cheese Grasshoppers by Yulia Tabenska, Oleh Denysenko, Ostap Lozynsky, and Dmytro Osipov; The School of Christmas by Yaryna Vynnytska and Olena Smetana’s art book Skrynia. References to the palimpsest and the role of the collage are analyzed showing that the selected texts are dense and concentric, containing coherent semantic layers which involve many intersecting cultural, national, and family aspects.
Keywords
identity; children’s literature; picture book; folklore; Ukrainian tradition
Hrčak ID:
270868
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2021.
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