The theme of homosexuality in Ukrainian literature

Vol.20,No.2(2017)

Jaroslav Sommer

https://doi.org/10.5817/SL2017-2-11

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http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/137366

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Abstract
The article is focused on contemporary Ukrainian literature and how it deals with the theme of homosexuality. This theme has been included by Ukrainian writers and poets into literature since the beginning of the 1990s. Ever since then it has undergone numerous metamorphosis, various authors have approached the theme of homosexuality in their works from a variety of viewpoints. For Yurii Andrukhovych homosexuality at the beginning of the 1990s one of the expressions of the crumbling totalitarian regime, for Oksana Zabuzhko it represents a new insight into the psyche of a person and Oles Ulianenko displays homosexual behaviour as an organic part of his view of the world. Writers who produce gay literature focus in their work, similarly to Ulianenko, on the inclusion of the topic into common themes (Yurii Yarema) even if their options are limited. Other authors try to build all of their works on this theme (Vitalii Yukhimenko), or they not only cover this theme, but they also infuse their work with poetics typical for works focused on readers that belong to some sexual minority (Oles Barlih).

Keywords:
homosexuality; LGBT; Ukrainian literature; gay literature; Yurii Andrukhovych; Oksana Zabuzhko; Oles Ulianenko; Yurii Yarema; Vitalii Yukhimenko; Oles Barlih

Pages:
103–110
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