A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
BUILDING OF AN AVERAGE WOMAN IMAGE IN MEMOIRS ON MAKHNOVSHCHINA
Authors: Simonova Olga A
Publisher: STATE ACAD SLAVIC CULTURE
Publication year: 2020
Journal: Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur -Bulletin of Slavic Cultures
Journal name in source: VESTNIK SLAVIANSKIKH KULTUR-BULLETIN OF SLAVIC CULTURES-SCIENTIFIC AND INFORMATIONAL JOURNAL
Journal acronym: VESTN SLAVIANSKIKH K
Volume: 58
First page : 225
Last page: 234
Number of pages: 10
ISSN: 2073-9567
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2020-58-225-234(external)
Web address : http://vestnik-sk.ru/russian/archive/2020/tom-58/simonova(external)
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/https://research.utu.fi/converis/mypages/editor/Publication/178713832/open_access_section(external)
The study addresses the memoirs of Natalia Sukhogorskaya "The memory of the Makhnovshchina" (1927) to restore the life of an ordinary woman under the power of Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine. In the Nestor Makhno's capital Huliaipole, autobiographical heroine immerses herself in the atmosphere filled with legends about Makhno. Thus the author generates two narrative tendencies: autobiographical and folkloric ones. The rumors nurture the autobiographical heroine's fears. From this perspective, author shows the identities of the heroine. The first of them - the motherhood - is not jeopardized under Makhno since he is friendly to children. The second is the refugee. Affiliation to the female sex also protects Sukhogorskaya under the rebels' sway. School as her job gives her an inviolable status. Her more vulnerable position is related to her identity as intelligentsia representative, seeing that the rebels didn't like this social stratum. The perspectives of author and autobiographical heroine are often intersecting, yet the paper proves able to clarify the author's functions who acts as a writer giving characteristics of internal movements of his personages. The author also appears as a historian who generalizes in hindsight and as a folklorist who records and reproduces oral stories, legends and rumors of the Civil war times. Fear for the life and the desire to survive become main motivators for the residents during the war, so that against this backdrop the author' s political views remain unclear.
