Дискурс націєтворення у публіцистиці Ірини Калинець: перманентність традиції

Abstract

The article makes an approach to understanding Iryna Kalynets’ journalism as an organic sphere of revealing her socio-political, intellectual and creative energy. The body of signifi cant texts (articles, speeches, interviews) of the dissident writer involved in the interpretation is analysed through the prism of nation-building issues and its projection in the present. The crystallization of the presented na-tional identity theory and author’s ideological position is considered in the nation-building strategies context of the prominent thinkers-predecessors of Ivan Franko and Ivan Ohienko. The quintessence of his work is manifested in the following ideological and thematic dominants: Ukraine’s sovereignty priority, national exist-ence completeness, nation-building and state-building functions of language and culture, intelligentsia role in people’s spiritual progress. The imperative warning against national assimilation by Russian chauvinism in its most diverse manifes-tations claims a special status in journalism of Iryna Kalynets. The author’s pro-posed program principles of the struggle for national-state self-determination of Ukrainian people, nationally specifi c program of improving the nation and spiritual renewal of socio-political life of Ukraine in gained independence realities draw attention. Ideological constructions and reasoned expositions of nation-building issues in her journalism function in the permanent tradition direction of political satire (expressive tendency, polemical sharpness, rich informative resource, vari-ety of stylistic language means, emphasized pathos, bright expressive imagery). The article notes the emotional and revelatory pathos, patriotic fervour, political foresight and relevance for today of Iryna Kalynets’s journalistic work, substanti-ates the need for its further professional analytical understanding