«УКРАЇНСЬКА РЕКОНКІСТА» НІЛИ ЗБОРОВСЬКОЇ. МІСТИЧНИЙ ПОСТМОДЕРНІЗМ І ПРОБЛЕМА ІНШОГО

Abstract

The article represents the attempt to read N. Zborovska’s anti-novel «The Ukrainian Reconquista» (2003) as a model of Ukrainian mystical postmodernism with its emphasis on the state of the Other, a higher reality known as the realm of the unspeakable. The study pays special attention to the specifics of the communicative model «I am the Other», its mystical and religious nature in the individual author’s interpretation. Within the «Self / Other» model, the issue of the drama of self-disclosure of the individual and the nation as well, the problem of self-affirmation are considered. The theoretical basis of the article is the idea of «compensatory insight» which is considered to be the position of the problem of the Other in the studies of Mykhailo Murashkin, as well as the philosophy of alternation of Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Lisa Ortiz, whom the Ukrainian researcher refers to. In this way, such states of the Other as esoteric practices of molfars, dreams, phantom, dance (flamenco / baile) have been carefully studied. From the standpoint of alternation, the phenomenon of rehabilitation of female sensuality is emphasized («writing through the body»). Text therapy as a derivative of the phase of «compensatory insight» and the genre of «total novel» produced by it («The Ukrainian Reconquista» is actually the sketch of this genre) are gaining significance as the only effective way to overcome a number of national phobias, postcolonial traumas, including victim syndrome. The article also actualizes the mysticism of the female-male, thus testifying to the relativity of the coordinates «I / Other», and, as a result, the ambiguity, the complexity of solving the problem of alternation in the postmodern discourse. The analysis of «The Ukrainian Reconquista» in this light allows to conclude that the anti-novel of N. Zborovska through the transformation of the ritual and mystical plan of otherness represents an attempt at intra-subjective and culturological «restoration».