Famine does not have a woman's face: female images in the works on Holodomor.
Journal Title: Львівський філологічний часопис - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue
Abstract
The article deals with the peculiarities of picturing the female images in the works of Ukrainian writers on Holodomor. Considerable attention is paid to the peculiarities of the characterization, conditioned by the requirements for postmodern artistic prose. Particular attention is focused on clarifying the historical correspondence of the facts highlighted in works. A woman, a mother in public consciousness is associated with home, with comfort. She is Bereginya, who is responsible for her children, their upbringing, health, home comfort, therefore, it is not surprising that she was subjected to requirements much more severe meaning salvation of a family than her husband. Thus, our goal is to investigate the specifics of creation of women's images in the novels of contemporary Ukrainian authors who covered the topic of the Holodomor in Ukraine (novels by Basaraba V. "The Last Judgement" (2013), Belimova T. "Free World" (2014), Dolyak N. "Black board" (2014), Talan S. "Split up sky" (2014), Vovk Y. "Until death will separate us" (2016), etc.). There was a number of resources that can be used by women to save children; all of them are mentioned in the recollections of witnesses of the events, in the works of contemporary authors and memoirs: the sale or exchange of personal belongings for food; female self-help; sending children to urban orphanages; exploitation of female's own body. In addition, the female body could be used differently. It could have been sexual contacts with representatives of local authorities for the sake of saving children and receiving food. So, it can be stated that a woman, who faced the destiny to be responsible for the family in the terrible years of hunger testing, collectivization, dispossession, used all possible resources that were not always comprehensible to common sense. The official Soviet historiography of those times did not reveal the truth about these awful years. An objective source for obtaining information became the testimony of people who could survive the Holodomor, or a memoir and artistic works of diaspora authors who were able to loudly declare a terrible crime against humanity committed by the authorities of the Soviet Union. The image of the mother-sufferer, who up to her last moment protected her children, became the main one in the artistic works on this subject.
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Л. В. Романенко
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