Antropologia literatury i obraz kobiety we współczesnej prozie ukraińskiej

Abstract

This article aims to present selected female characters from the prose of Oksana Zabużko, Jewhenia Kononenko, Sofija Andrukhovych and Natalia Śniadanko. These characters are women: an Ukrainian, an Ukrainian – Galician, a writer and a prostitute. They are portrayed at different life stages as a girl, a young woman and a mature woman as expressions of individual experience and discourse of identity. The works described in the article are a manifestation of the social and cultural changes in contemporary Ukraine.