Open AccessPEOPLE'S NARRATIVE TRADITION ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE POLISH COLONY OF PYSHIVKA IN THE SPRING OF 1944
Author(s) -
Yevhen Lunyo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
novìtnâ doba
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2409-434X
DOI - 10.33402/nd.2020-8-46-76
Subject(s) - ukrainian , narrative , politics , history , epic , dominance (genetics) , humanism , literature , sociology , aesthetics , law , political science , philosophy , art , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
It is investigated how the Ukrainian folk-narrative tradition in various genre records of the beginning of the 21st century reflects and comprehends one of the numerous events of the Polish-Ukrainian armed conflict of the 1940s in the western Ukrainian lands - the destruction of the Polish colony Pyshivka by the Ukrainian armed underground in the spring of 1944. It is stated that the folk epic memory of Ukrainians reproduces the event of sixty years ago quite clearly, in various aspects and numerous details. It is noted that the narrative tradition of understanding the destruction of Pyshivka takes place in two planes - socio-political, military on the one hand, and Christian-moral humanistic - on the other. However, they do not always act in their pure separate essence: either one or the other. It is traced from the stories that in one narrator, they can be organically combined with a certain dominance of one or another component. It was stated that the narrators of the socio-political direction - primarily participants and eyewitnesses, reflected and comprehended the specific event of the destruction of Pyshivka in a broader aspect of the Polish-Ukrainian confrontation under the influence of information about the hostile intention of Poles against their village, as well as stories about previous similar Polish actions against Ukrainian villages. At the same time, there is a tendency that the farther the narrators are from the realities of the national liberation struggle, were not its eyewitnesses, and are not more deeply interested in it from printed or other sources, the more their understanding acquires a humanistic and moral content. They sincerely regret and mourn what happened, show a subconscious complex of guilt, and hence focus more on peaceful, friendly relations before the war, sympathetically speak of the high moral and spiritual qualities and higher economic success of the Polish colonists.Keywords: narrative tradition, Polish-Ukrainian armed conflict, historical memory, Pyshivka, Yavoriv region.