Review article

Woman as author and heroine in modern Ukrainian literature

Domagoj Kliček ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb
Dariya Pavlešen ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb

Abstract

The article deals with the role of women as authors and heroines in Ukrainian literature from the period of romanticism to the contemporary era. The female character changes from a stylized innocent girl to Shevchenko's unmarried mothers (pokrytky), where the woman is a symbol of the Mother Ukraine to the first feminist voices in nineteenth-century prose of Ol’gа Kobyljans’ka and Lesja Ukrajinka, interrupted by the bleak frame of faceless socialist realism, focused on work and sacrifice. The female voice later appears in the 1960s in the noble poetry of Lina Kostenko and finally it freely flourishes in the late twentieth and the early twenty-first century in contemporary women's prose.

Keywords

Ukrainian literature; women authors; the sixtiers; socialist realism; women's prose

Hrčak ID:

201789

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/201789

Publication date:

19.6.2018.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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