Title of the article:

BUILDING OF AN AVERAGE WOMAN IMAGE IN MEMOIRS ON MAKHNOVSHCHINA

Author(s):

Olga A. Simonova

Information about the author/authors

Olga A. Simonova — PhD in Philology, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Science, Povarskaya St., 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4802-7750. E-mail: osimonova@yandex.ru

Section

Philological sciences

Year

2020

Volume

Vol. 58

Pages

pp. 225-234

Received

January 15, 2020

Date of publication

December 28, 2020

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2020-58-225-234

Index UDK

821.161.1.0

Index BBK

83.3(2Рос=Руе)53

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Civil war, status of women, memoirs, author, autobiographical heroine.

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