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

https://hrcak.srce.hr/270868

Publication date:

29.12.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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