Емоційний світ колоніального суб’єкта у прозі Г. Квітки-Основ’яненка і В. Наріжного. Феномен ресентименту
The Emotional World of the Colonial Subject in the Prose of Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko and Vasyl’ Narizhnyi: The Phenomenon of Resentment

Summary/Abstract: Aspects of psychopoetics and psychohistory as fundamentally new research strategies in understanding the creative achievements of Ukrainian literature are substantiated. The methodology of new historicism used in the paper made it possible to consider the historical images embodied in literature through the prism of emotions and the collective mental experience of the nation. The constructive role of emotions in transtextual practices and migrations of plots compared in the perspective of distant cultural epochs is emphasized. In the plane of cultural transfer, emotions are explored in the works of H. Kvitka-Osnovianenko and V. Narizhnyi. The paper examines colonial resentment as a national psycho-emotional complex, a manifestation of collective sensitivity, a trope, a figure of speech and an element of controversial writing in Ukrainian literature. The application of an emotional approach to the study of nations and ethnic groups is very productive in view of the creation of alternative psychohistories and psychopoetics of national literatures, post-colonial reading of traditional narratives, and local history as a mapped sensitivity. Attention is focused on resentment, the variability of its manifestations in the works of writers, the connection of the complex of national-historical images with the psychology of colonial subjugation and the sub-imperial status of Ukrainian literature itself in the first half of the 19th century is traced. The expediency of the anthropological approach to the typology of nations as emotional communities with their inherent emotional standards and regimes is proven, the powerful influence of European romantic doctrines, in particular G. Herder’s, on the formation of national-centrism in Ukrainian literature is substantiated. The national specifics of emotional behaviour and related manifestations of revenge, class hatred, violence and social aggression are emphasized, the influence of insurgent movements and the psychology of rebellion on the formation of an anti-colonial worldview is revealed. The prose of V. Narizhny and H. Kvitka-Osnovianenko is analyzed from the point of view of anthropologizing the genre, representation of national history in genre forms, and in the plane of national narrative.

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