Original research article
Polish-Ukrainian Studies

Literary Diary as an Attempt at Autotherapy of War Trauma (on the Example of Valeria Burlakova’s Novel Zhyttia P.S.)

2020, 7, Volume 7

Oksana Pukhonska

0000-0003-0543-4847

National University of Ostroh Academy, Ukraine

DOI

10.32612/uw.23535644.2020.pp.210-222

Publication date

23.09.2020

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open access

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CC BY 3.0 PL

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Humanities

Discipline

literary studies, culture and religion studies, arts studies, history, philosophy

Language of publication

Polish, Ukrainian, English

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Abstract

The article is a scientific attempt to understand and present to the contemporary recipient the artistic dimension of war and its reflection in the cultural consciousness of the society of the twenty-first century. The author appeals to the literary diary titled Zhyttia P.S. (The Life P.S.), written by a soldier participating in the Russian-Ukrainian war in Donbas. Certain features of the work provide evidence that it is a hybrid war. For Ukrainians, it is a war for real memory. Most attention in the researching of the literary reception of this traumatic event is paid to three fundamental signs. The first one is the gender peculiarity – the story is told by a woman who fought at the front and lost there her beloved person, who was killed by the enemy. The second peculiarity is the feature of writing therapy, when writing the diary opened the possibility of release from the experienced trauma. And the third one is the genre of diary, which is a memoir and at the same time an artistic reflection of the image of war.

Keywords:

war,trauma,art therapy,diary,hybrid war,memory

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