Anna Gaidash

This research will study the semantic and poetic imagery of the Great Famine, from 1932-1933, in Ukrainian drama from a diachronic perspective, focusing on the literary means of representing the ineffable. The selected plays include S. Kokot-Ledyansky ‘s "Nineteen Thirty-Third Year" (1943), B. Boychuk’s "Hunger – 1933" (1968), N. Vorozhbit’s "The Grain Store" (2010), O. Barlih’s "Trees Miss the Bus" (2013), and N. Nezhdana's "Voice of the Quiet Abyss" (2014). The project's central claim is that the ineffable representations in the plays about Holodomor are construed with the help of nonmimetic imagery, in particular, transcendental and traumatic experiences, silence, and religiosity, enabled by the Ukrainian heritage of khymerna prose.