The archetype of a woman warrior in the work of Svitlana Alexievich

Anatoliy Novykov; Nataliia Hohol; Larysa Horbolis; Dmytro Marieiev; Tetiana Kleimenova

doi:10.34069/AI/2023.65.05.9

Anatoliy Novykov Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University, Hlukhiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5158-960X
Nataliia Hohol Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University, Hlukhiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0780-6237
Larysa Horbolis Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko, Sumy, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4775-622X
Dmytro Marieiev Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University, Hlukhiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6282-8052
Tetiana Kleimenova Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University, Hlukhiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2095-8067

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2023.65.05.9

Keywords: Documentary prose, archetype, archetype of woman warrior, woman warrior archetype variations, defining features of woman warrior archetype.

Abstract

Examples of Belarussian writer Svitlana Alexievich documentary prose – novels “The Unwomanly Face of War” and “Zinky Boys” dedicated accordingly to highlighting of German-Soviet (1941–1945) and Soviet-Afghan (1979–1989) wars have been reviewed in the article. The focus of the author is emphasized on the problem of disclosure of woman warrior archetype through the prism of consciousness of writer’s novels characters which still wasn’t the object of literary research. In order to achieve the objective of research general scientific and special literary methods is used: analysis, synthesis, descriptive, cultural and historical, method of archetypical critics, hermeneutic, typological, psychological methods and textual and contextual analysis and elements of comparative analysis of the Svitlana’s Alexievich works. It has been found features of woman warrior archetype representation and its functioning in the article. It has been defined variations of this archetype in the researched works of writer and defining features of woman warrior archetype. It has been emphasized that in the both works “The Unwomanly Face of war” and “Zinky Boys” – S. Alexievich doesn't just generalized image-archetype of woman warrior but granted to it the modern sounding.

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Author Biographies

Anatoliy Novykov, Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University, Hlukhiv, Ukraine.

Doctor in Philology, Professor at the the Department of Ukrainian Language, Literature and Methods of Teaching, Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University, Hlukhiv, Ukraine.

Nataliia Hohol, Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University, Hlukhiv, Ukraine.

Doctor in Pedagogy, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Ukrainian Language, Literature and Methods of Teaching, Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University, Hlukhiv, Ukraine.

Larysa Horbolis, Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko, Sumy, Ukraine.

Doctor in Philology, Professor at the Department of Ukrainian Language and Literature, Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko, Sumy, Ukraine.

Dmytro Marieiev, Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University, Hlukhiv, Ukraine.

PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Department of Ukrainian Language, Literature and Methods of Teaching, Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University, Hlukhiv, Ukraine.

Tetiana Kleimenova, Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University, Hlukhiv, Ukraine.

PhD in Philology, Seniour Lecture at the Department of Ukrainian Language, Literature and Methods of Teaching, Oleksandr Dovzhenko Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University, Hlukhiv, Ukraine.

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