The Insurgent Struggle Against the Soviet Occupiers in Vasyl Herasymiuk's Poetry
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2017
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Laiuk, Myroslav
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Vasyl Herasymiuk, one of the most prominent contemporary Ukrainian poets, presents the
struggle of the insurgents against the Soviet occupiers in the Carpathians in his literary works
as an opposition of “own” and “other.” The invasion of the occupier destroys the authentic
Carpathian cultural continuum and the insurgent underground resistance becomes a symbol
of the human struggle for dignity and the preservation of own identity. The article analyzes the
specific model of history presented in Vasyl Herasymiuk’s poetry. The connection between the
insurgency and the poet’s biography and the history of his family is demonstrated. The article
also traces and analyzes the contamination of the images of UPA insurgents and opryshky, the
transformation in the hierarchical verticality of space, and the development of the struggle,
presented via the opposition of “own” — “other,” from a myth-ritual point of view.
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Vasyl Herasymiuk, poetry, insurgents, occupiers, the Carpathians, article
Citation
Laiuk Myroslav. The Insurgent Struggle Against the Soviet Occupiers in Vasyl Herasymiuk's Poetry / Myroslav Laiuk // Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. - 2017. - No. 4. - P. 113-121.