THE PROBLEM OF SAVING NATIONAL IDENTITY IN ANTI-TOTALITARIAN DISCOURSE IN THE UKRAINIAN EMIGRATION SHORT STORY

Abstract

The article tells about the creative achievements of the Diaspora’s Ukrainian writers Petro Volynjak, Olena Zvyčajna, Zosym Dončuk and Vasyl’ Čaplenko who were unfairly forgotten. Special attention is paid to the art of representing the national identity in their short stories. The authors created a powerful antitotalitarian discourse, wrote about the problem of keeping the Ukrainian language and reactualized elements of the Ukrainian folklore.