СВОЄ / ЧУЖЕ: ПРОБЛЕМА ОКРЕСЛЕННЯ ІДЕНТИЧНОСТІ В ПРОЗІ НАТАЛІ КОБРИНСЬКОЇ
THE SELF / THE STRANGER: THE PROBLEM OF IDENTITY OUTLINING IN THE PROSE OF NATALIA KOBRYNSKA

Summary/Abstract: The relevance of the article stems from the demand for rethinking Natalia Kobrynska’sprose and therefore her position in the Ukrainian literary canon. On the one hand, Kobrynska’s artisticsearches reflect the development path of fin de siècle Ukrainian literature (realistic and modernistwriting). On the other hand, some issues and themes in Kobrynska`s prose are actually ahead of hertime (conceptualizing the Other, identity construction through power discourses, interrelation ofpower and knowledge, Kobrynska`s writing ecological impulses and so on). The paper was writtenwithin the framework of identity studies; the key issue is the tension between a construction anda choice. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate that Kobrynska’s characters’ identity is the resultof their choices rather than their belonging to society. To conclude, Kobrynska has discovered themost appropriate ways of representation of society’s members at the time in which social relationscollapse and emergence.

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