Bohdan Boichuk's Childhood Reveries: A Migrant's Nostalgia, or, Documenting Pain in Poetry

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dc.contributor.authorRewakowicz, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-24T10:06:28Z
dc.date.available2018-12-24T10:06:28Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines Bohdan Boichuk’s poetry by looking into the role his childhood memories played in forming his poetic imagination. Displaced by World War II, the poet displays a unique capacity to transcend his traumatic experiences by engaging in creative writing. Eyewitnessing war atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis does not destroy his belief in the healing power of poetry; on the contrary, it makes him appreciate poetry as the only existentially worthy enterprise. Invoking Gaston Bachelard’s classic work The Poetics of Reveries: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos, I argue that Boichuk’s vivid childhood memories, however painful they might be, helped him poetically recreate and reimagine fateful moments of his migrant life.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRewakowicz M. G. Bohdan Boichuk's Childhood Reveries: A Migrant's Nostalgia, or, Documenting Pain in Poetry / Maria G. Rewakowicz // Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. - 2018. - No. 5 : Cross-Cultural Connections and Displacement in Ukraine and Beyond. - P. 133-142.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2313-4895
dc.identifier.urihttps://ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/14968
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.18523/kmhj150392.2018-5.133-142
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.sourceKyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. - 2018. - No. 5 : Cross-Cultural Connections and Displacement in Ukraine and Beyonden_US
dc.statusfirst publisheden_US
dc.subjectwar and poetryen_US
dc.subjectchildhood memoriesen_US
dc.subjectmigrant displacementen_US
dc.subjectBohdan Boichuken_US
dc.subjectGaston Bachelarden_US
dc.subjectarticleen_US
dc.titleBohdan Boichuk's Childhood Reveries: A Migrant's Nostalgia, or, Documenting Pain in Poetryen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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