The image of Borys Grinchenko and its contexts in Maryana Angelova’s play “The Grinchenko Syndrome” (original) (raw)

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The article examines Maryana Angelova’s play “The Grinchenko Syndrome”, which modelled the author’s artistic version of the dystopian transition of the Ukrainian language to the status of “dead” when it is not used all the time, as well as the situation of its recollection and “revival”. The guides of this “reincarnation” of the language are the unique 4-volume Dictionary and its compiler, Borys Grinchenko. It is not by chance that the author labels the genre of the work as “vocabulary drama”. The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that the problem of a radical revision of the catalogue of personalities, key to Ukrainianism today, is directly related to the development of the decolonial Ukrainian identity, memory studies, and revision of the Ukrainian cultural pantheon, which is difficult to imagine without the figure of Borys Grinchenko, who fits into this pantheon quite sporadically. The subject of the article is the analysis of artistic strategies of non-biographica...

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