„АЛІЄ, АЛЬОНА І Я. З НАШИХ ІМЕН, НАПИСАНИХ У РЯДОК АБО СТОВПЧИК, МОЖНА ВИВЧАТИ ІСТОРІЮ КРИМУ’’. ВІДНАЙДЕНА НАЦІОНАЛЬНА ІДЕНТИЧНІСТЬ У РОМАНІ АНАСТАСІЇ ЛЕВКОВОЇ „ЗА ПЕРЕКОПОМ Є ЗЕМЛЯ. КРИМСЬКИЙ РОМАН”

Abstract

The proposed article focuses on the issue of national identity in the context of the cultural polyphony of Crimea and its tragic historical events. The object of analysis is Anastasiia Levkova’s novel 'Beyond Perekop, There Is Land', published in 2023. This is a story about Crimea spanning from the 1980s. Alim Aliiev, the founder of the literary competition 'Crimean Fig', calls it 'a guidebook to Crimea'. However, it is also a novel about national identity – lost, rediscovered, and acquired. The protagonist reconstructs events from her childhood, using the lens of individual memory and recollections of her friends and their families not only to articulate traumatic experiences but also to prove that beyond Perekop, there is indeed land.