Odessa‘s ecumene as a topos of identity in Vanda Mazur‘s novel "Money"
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Keywords

Vanda Mazur’s novel “Money”
Odessa‘s Ecumene
spatial topoi
artistic anthropology
transcultural identity

How to Cite

Nadezhda, S. (2020). Odessa‘s ecumene as a topos of identity in Vanda Mazur‘s novel "Money" . Bibliotekarz Podlaski, 48(3), 283–293. https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.536

Abstract

The article analyses the image of Odessa’s Ecumene in Vanda Mazur’s novel “Money” as a factor of anthropic identity. It is noted that the spatial location in the novel are conceptualized not so much in the aspect of the ethnic factor, but rather the existential-ontological and mythopoetical one. The spatial topic of the novel, with all the obvious signs of non-fiction (topoi of France, North Africa, Ukraine, Odessa, etc.), is characterized by symbolic meanings and archetypal codes. It corresponds to the poetics of ambiguity with such nominations as “south of Ukraine”, “southern city”, and the people of which made it possible to create Odessa‘s Ecumene. But the reader is not immediately told which southern city is being described. Only during the course of the narrative is the image of the place specified by the location of Odessa and the Odessa region. The semantic field of these concepts expands to meanings containing the mental state of the entire Ukrainian ethnic group in times of existential and civilizational upheaval. The text formation strategy – between fiction and non-fiction – comes into fruition in the novel by combining the discourses of vision, reflection and credible spatial locations. According to this, the toponyms’ sphere in the created literary pictures of the Ecumene’s world is not limited to function a sign of a real place, but is adorned with symbolic meanings. Obviously, the artistic anthropology of Vanda Mazur’s novel “Money” correlates with the concepts of postcolonial studies on overcoming Eurocentrism and ethnocentrism, against a background of approving of the ideas of environmental and cultural ecumenism. The concepts of Odessa and the Odessa region within the borders of the artistic world of the novel are articulated as axiologically significant in affirming the transcultural identity of the characters. 

https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.536
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References

Mazur V., Denʹhy: roman-okean, Kharʹkov 2019, 445 s.

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