(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2017) Borysiuk, Iryna; Stanisz, Marek; Uliasz, Stanisław
The article is focused on the problems of national identity, self-representation,
and memory re-articulation in Oksana Zabuzhko’s poetry. Language, speaking,
and word as well as silence are conceptualized as key concepts in verse by the 1980s
generation of Ukrainian poets to whom Oksana Zabuzhko belongs. Speaking and
silence in 1980s poetry can be treated not only as concepts or metaphors but also as
a literary strategy or even as the form of resistance in the late Soviet era. The article
is structured as the gradation of motives from speaking to silence in Zabuzhko’s
poetry. The analyses includes such subthemes as non-verbal language represented
by sounds, gestures, and poses, verbal language as existing between sacrum and
profanum, speechlessness, and silence.