Cultural discourse of the ukrainian diaspora’s periodicals as a factor of national identity preservation
Journal Title: Eminak - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 4
Abstract
The article is devoted to cultural discourse in the US Diaspora’s periodicals as one of the factors of the national identity preservation. The periodicals of the Ukrainian Diaspora in the United States still continues to have a great influence, as they used to have before, on preserving the national identity of foreign Ukrainians and the formation of national and patriotic public opinion, while forming a positive image of Ukrainian in the world. The ability to attract the broad public audience quickly enables contemporary periodicals to transform the traditional system of spiritual production in the certain direction. Besides, they also serve as a meaningful instrument for the creation of a single Ukrainian-language historical and cultural information space in the United States, which is, basically, plays the role of the spiritual and ideological cement that consolidates foreign Ukrainians into the unity. The analysis of Ukrainian-language periodicals («Svoboda», «Chas i Podii», «Ukrainske Slovo», «NOVA Gazeta», and «Mist») attests to the fact that despite the emigration, the dispersal of cultural and intellectual forces, Ukrainian Diaspora in the United States has managed to turn the cultural factor, along with the religious one, into the force that consolidates and creates a nation. This is the area where the nation can be influenced honestly. The development of culture is a guarantee of the existence of a nation, as well as its identity. The knowledge of the national cultural achievements is necessary not only for the elevation of national dignity of Ukrainians, but also for the present generations, when the best cultural traditions of ancestors can be used to form a national consciousness, upbringing of the coming generation, which should be conscious of its national identity. Ukrainian Diaspora in the United States has become such a monolith that unites broad masses. Due to its hard work the artificially created gaps of Ukrainian contribution to the world cultural process were closed. The material of periodicals testifies that foreign Ukrainians created such a powerful cultural stratum that it managed not only to enrich the world civilization, but also contributed to the USSR destruction and returned to the Ukrainians lost national memory.
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Lesya Bilovus
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