Generacija “Ćera”: problem traumatičnog iskustva rata (na primeru romana Ćera Tamare Goriha Zernja)
The “Dotsiaˮ Generation: The Problem of Traumatic War Experience and the Novel “Dotsiaˮ by Tamara Gorikha Zernya

Summary/Abstract: The article offers for consideration a literary interpretation of the modern Russian-Ukrainian war using the example of Tamara Gorikha Zernya’s novel Dotsia. The main focus is on the problem of memory and the trauma of entire generations caught up in the war. The memory of generations serves as the main means of representing one’s own identity, which is reflected in various aspects. First of all, this is self awareness as a representative of a certain cultural group, national identity, as well as generational affiliation. The literary representation of trauma in Tamara Gorikha Zernya’s novel Dotsia is reflected through the consciousness of a person involved in the war. Primarily war is associated with a crisis of personal, collective, and national identities, which leads to the loss of any value orientations. The author of the article, synthesizing the work of trauma studies and memory studies in a methodological approach tries to trace how to (re)live the war, accept and overcome this traumatic experience, and resuscitate the national memory in the context of the dominance of post-Soviet and pro-Russian narratives, to find one’s national identity.

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