Characteristics of the characters of the collection "Zviroslov" (the novel "Chicken") by Tetyana Malyarchuk in the context of the use of stereotypical gender profiling

Abstract

Background. The relevance of the research topic is determined by the general orientation of contemporary Ukrainian prose texts and the experimental study of the specifics of feminine design of texts of various pragmatic and stylistic orientations, as well as the importance of studying women's prose as a separate worldview and artistic space, outside the dominant masculine cultural tradition, but within the aesthetics of postmodernism.

Methods. The world is interpreted through the prism of femininity with the help of stereotypical gender profiling. It is noted that men's prose is characterized by stylistic eclecticism – philosophical, journalistic and autobiographical confessionality, etc., while female prose also changes the angle of view. It has been established that the writer offers a subjective manner of artistic narration, which is manifested in the unusual use of language clichés, they serve to express the system of images in the work and enhance the emotional and expressive shades of words. Typological varieties of functional models of perception and evaluation of the reality of modern space in the short story (on the example of the collection "Beast Words" by Tetyana Maliarchuk) are distinguished. It is emphasized that the author debunks the following stereotypes: father-family man and mother-caretaker; division into male and female labor; man is the head of the family; submissiveness of women, their focus on family and household. It is found that the writer offers a version of artificial human relationships, ironizes the stereotypes about the exceptional beauty of Ukrainian women, as well as their talkativeness, lacquered appearance and expected vicissitudes, biased by job descriptions or the so-called folk morality.

Results. The research is devoted to the description of the peculiarities of Tetyana Maliarchuk's feminine prose on the basis of the text of the poem "Chicken" from the collection "Zviroslov". The results of a comprehensive analysis of the text with diverse characteristics and hypotheses about the pathogenic behavior of women in society and the causes of such behavior, which are primarily related to masculinity, because it is the man who causes pathogens in the woman's worldview, are presented. On the basis of their comparison and interpretation, a number of models of modern women's behavior have been formed on the basis of individual texts from Tetyana Maliarchuk's collection "Animal Word".