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Reading Practices of Children and Adolescents in Contemporary Ukrainian War-Time Literature: Artistic Representation and Transformative Potential
Oleksandra Visych
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1706-1147Tetiana Mykhalchuk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4171-737XAbstract
This article examines the functions of reading in contemporary Ukrainian literature for children and adolescents written during the time of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war. Based on the works of Natalia Yasinovska, Dzvinka Matiash and Halyna Tkachuk, this article analyses how reading practices have become a tool for comprehending traumatic experiences, preserving cultural memory, and supporting the identity of young heroes. Narratological, aesthetic-receptive, and typological approaches are applied. As a result, five modes of reading practices (transformative, affective, interactive, analytical and creative) and four types of reader characters (empath, performer, future author and researcher) are identified. It is shown that, in wartime, reading acquires therapeutic, cognitive and social functions, becoming a means of collective solidarity and a factor in personal transformation.
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reading practices, reader character, literature for children and adolescents, war narrative, literary therapy, transformative reading, affective reading, metaliterature, performanceDetails
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