PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL ASPECTS OF REPRESENTATION OF EMIGRATION IN UKRAINIAN FICTION

Abstract

Ukrainian emigration is an extremely multifaceted phenomenon, therefore approaches to its study and research can be very different. The article deals with the reflection of emigration in Ukrainian literature and journalism as the most psychological and emotional source of information, which always pays attention to the problems of the time and in its own way looks for ways to solve them. Starting from the end of the 19th century, that is, from the first stage of emigration, the beginnings of Ukrainians’ departure abroad were different. Mainly, each stage is characterized as «labor» or «political» (sometimes these two directions were synthesized), but always leaving from the native land caused deep experiences and emotions associated with the unknown, a different way of life, a break with the family, closest people in general. In the scholarly works, the penultimate «worker» stage, or as it is also generally called the «іtalian» stage of emigration, has been insufficiently described. Not studied is the last stage, which is connected with today’s war on the territory of Ukraine, which is still continuing. But the artistic thinking of the people, associated with the emotional perception of events in extreme conditions, manifests itself faster. And we already have new works. Perhaps they cannot yet compete with the works of V. Stefanyk, Y. Sverstyuk, U. Samchuk and other writers who have already become classics, but these works are actual and there is a need for them. There are still not enough scientific works in which the issue of emigration is considered in the literature.