BORDER AND HOME AS ONTOLOGICAL UNIVERSALIAS IN UKRAINIAN-CANADIAN LITERATURE
Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Філологія. Літературознавство" - Year 2017, Vol 301, Issue 289
Abstract
The article concentrates on the universalias of border and home as defining the concept of identity in Ukrainian-Canadian literature of the pioneering stage. Identity of displaced persons is correlated with their national tradition and culture and, as it is examined and shown, is never fixed (ассording to a postmodernist theory). Gradually it becomes such, which corresponds to the so-called «in-between status». So, the aim of this article is to trace the (re)construction of multiple identities by means of universalias of home and border, which are the central categories for emigrants as we live in the multicultural society when the idea of globalization is «in the air». At the very beginning, Ukrainian emigrants demonstrate haunting anxiety for their stable «home». We deal with poetry, which was the «first word» in Ukrainian-Canadian literature at all. The authors of the initial wave of emigration realize the idea of sorrow (because of the lost home (motherland) and hope for a better future as they obtain freedom and a lot of land in the new country. Universalias of home and border represent spiritual search of the self by the emigrants after crossing the frontier. Another key thesis – to prevent a future generation from assimilation, from forgetting their real home (roots). Two of the most significant novels of the first period of Ukrainian-Canadian literature are Sons of the soil by I. Kiriak and Yellow boots by V. Lysenko which provide an epic picture of Ukrainian emigrants’ life in Canada during the pioneering era. Both authors assert that for displaced persons home corresponds to the feeling of belonging, which is beyond all question connected with land (as the majority of these people are peasants). Their state of un-belonging, nonattachment at last (after many years) changes for home obtaining which conventionally associates with stability. The author of Yellow boots also creates a story of the girl of Ukrainian descending who is in perpetual search for home (her individuality, identity, family), which means fluidity, movement and continuous process of development and exploration
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T. V. Shadrina
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