Discourse on the traumatic experience of Ukrainian internally displaced and refugee women: A Foe – A Friend – A Family by Iryna Feofanova

Strany: 24 - 34

Jazyk: eng

The article deals with the discourse on the traumatic experience of Ukrainian internally displaced and refugee women in Iryna Feofanova’s debut collection of short stories, Chuzha-svoia-ridna (A foe – a friend – a family, 2023). The analysis is rooted in the interdisciplinary fields of contemporary humanities and trauma studies, alongside approaches developed by feminist criticism. Feofanova’s stories are structurally heterogeneous but interconnected in three dimensions: 1) the common theme of war, which the writer always presents as a reason for her characters’ traumas; 2) the perception of war not only as a tragic problem of Ukrainian society as a whole, but also as a tragedy of a particular Ukrainian family or individual – a child, a woman, or a man; 3) the protagonist is a refugee or internally displaced woman who, regardless of the circumstances or location, draws on inner strength to cope with pain, despair, and anxiety

ISO 690:

Hajduk, S. 2025. Discourse on the traumatic experience of Ukrainian internally displaced and refugee women: A Foe – A Friend – A Family by Iryna Feofanova. In World Literature Studies, vol. 17, no.3, pp. 24-34. 1337-9275. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2025.17.3.3

APA:

Hajduk, S. (2025). Discourse on the traumatic experience of Ukrainian internally displaced and refugee women: A Foe – A Friend – A Family by Iryna Feofanova. World Literature Studies, 17(3), 24-34. 1337-9275. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2025.17.3.3

Vydavateľ: Ústav svetovej literatúry SAV, v. v. i.