THE FIGURE OF NATALIA KOBRYNSKA THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE WORKS OF THE UKRAINIAN DIASPORA IN CANADA IRENA KNYSH
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2024.158.7
Keywords:
diaspora, Canada, Knysz, Kobrynska, Ukrainian women's movement, feminism, genderAbstract
Іntroduction. The article is devoted to the study of the works of a bright representative of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada - Irena Knysh, in which she analyzes the life, creative and social progress of the theoretician and the founder of organized feminism in Ukraine, the organizer of the first Ukrainian feminist organization and the first national almanac on the topic of gender equality - Natalia Kobrynska.
Methods. An anthropocentric approach is used, which makes it possible to focus on the personality of Kobrynska and her feminist and gender works in both organizational and literary formats. The principles and methods of historical and anthropological research are used (the principle of anthropological interpretation and reduction, based on which the work of Kobrynska is analyzed as a way of self-objectification of the writer) in combination with biographical (analysis of biographical material about Kobrynska), historical and analytical (study of social and political influences on the formation of Natalia Kobrynska's emancipatory ideas and her structuring of the ideology of feminism into an organizational form), figurative and stylistic methods (analysis of the writer's literary work).
The results. Analyzing the works of Irena Knysh dedicated to Kobrynska, the author tried to demonstrate the multifaceted nature of Natalia Kobrynska's activity and the constant components of her intellectual worldview, through the prism of which Irena Knysh saw her: in her versatile human essence, in complex inner self-development, in dialogue with herself and her environment. There is no doubt that Kobrynska's artistic works have become a valuable asset of national literature, and her social and public, primarily feminist activity is a unique page in the history of the Ukrainian social-democratic movement.
Conclusions. The activities of Nataliya Kobrynska and the research of Irena Knysh become particularly relevant in today's difficult times, when Ukrainian feminism faces new challenges and responds to them. Again, as 140 years ago, Ukrainian feminists have to fight for Ukraine, for their rights in Ukraine and abroad
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