CODIFICATION OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN THE NOVEL «HETMAN IVAN VYHOVSKY» BY IVAN NECHUI-LEVYTSKY
Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Філологія. Літературознавство" - Year 2016, Vol 276, Issue 264
Abstract
The proposed study draw attention to the peculiarities of the reception of the Russian Empire in the novel «Hetman Ivan Vyhov-sky» by Ivan Nechui-Levytsky. The aim of the studies is caused by the need of postcolonial understanding of binomial «empire – col-ony» in the projection of a literary text because, on the one hand, Russian textuality shaped basic modes of Ukraine, on the other hand, Ukrainian writers presented the image of the Russian Empire. Analysis of the novel is performed in the context of postcolonial theory. This approach seems relevant. It enables a new way to interpret national figures and texts, input in the literary canon. The study leads to the following conclusions. Transformation of the Ukrainian political and socio-cultural experience in recent decades determines Ukrainian literature stud-ies, defining its postcolonial orientation. Russian literature as imperial project, Ukrainian-Russian literary relations in recent years have been interpreted in the light of postcolonial theory in the dimensions of different aspects such as comparative-typological, phil-osophical, narrative. Literary understanding of the historical novel by Ivan Nechui-Levytsky in the context of interpretation of na-tional history issues, implicit and explicit influences on its formation of the imperial factor was in several studies (E. Baran, N. Bernadska, N. Boyko, A. Huliak, S. Efremov, M. Ilnytskyy, L. Novychenko, A. Pogrebny, I. Prykhodko, A. Chyk and others). In the novel «Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky» historical events, which the author appeals to, are not accidental. Reconstructing the his-tory Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky implicitly indicates the reasons of colonization to the Ukrainian recipient, such as signing of the Pereyaslav Agreement by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky at that time. This view was opposite to the official ideological version. The novel depicts three national types: Ukrainian, Polish, Russian. Russian world is reconstructed as lower and opposite to higher – Ukrainian and Polish. Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky distinctly forms icky Russian national «I». Moscow political and religious establishment, such as the clergy, nobles, is given such attributes as «darkness», ignorance, aggression, treachery, meanness. In-stead, Ukrainians are distinguished by Europeanness, education, democracy and humanism.
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O. Yurchuk
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