THE TERRITORY OF SELF-AWARENESS: "THE ENCHANTMENT OF MOROCCO" BY SOFIIA YABLONSKA-UDEN

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the content aspects and structural features of the book of travel sketches "The Enchantment of Morocco" by Ukrainian filmmaker and traveler Sofiia Yablonska-Uden. On the example of the work, the discursive mechanisms of travel literature are analyzed in the context of a broad range of issues relevant to the time of writing sketches; innovative, semimedia character of travel sketches is shown, content blocks and the interrelations between them are distinguished and highlighted. Hermeneutic scientific approaches are used in this article; it is based on the philosophy of identity and cultural studies, colonial and postcolonial studies. Main results of the research: 1) travel literature occupies an important, and often a key place in the discourse on identity; 2) identity is conceived as a key multilevel marker; 3) the intention of the trip contains an identical challenge that affects the preparation, organization, flow of travel, the way of documenting impressions and the content of documented impressions; 4) the book is characterized by the tension between colonialism and enslavement, in the field of which the self-positioning of the narrator occurs; 5) traveling fulfills the function of restoring lost communications – with oneself, with culture, with history, with natural, urban and anthropomorphic environment. Sofiia Yablonska-Uden's "The Enchantment of Morocco" sketches formulate an identical challenge and try to answer him. This answer is complex, based on antinomy pairs: statehood – statelessness, Europeanism – non-European, modernity – nonmodernity, femininity – manhood, domination – subordination, maturity – childhood. These antinomy pairs are in interference, inclusion, and / or tangency relationships. The study of travel literature, an identical issue, is relevant for the formation of a modern vision of Ukrainian society itself, belonging to a European civilization project and engaging in a global context. Keywords nonfiction travel literature, modernism, extraterritorialization, exotic discourse, orientalism.