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The ethnographic activity of Mykhailo Kotsyubynskyi as a basement for the formation of the source basis of the story “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”

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Karpenko, A. (2019) The ethnographic activity of Mykhailo Kotsyubynskyi as a basement for the formation of the source basis of the story “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”. Materials to Ukrainian Ethnology, 18 (21), 179–187.

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Karpenko Andriy

candidate of historical sciences, teacher of Ukrainian language and literature, secondary education institution No. 55, Lviv.

 

The ethnographic activity of Mykhailo Kotsyubynskyi as a basement for the formation of the source basis of the story “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”

 

Abstract

The present article highlights the contribution of Mykhaylo Kotsiubynskyi (1864–1913) to the development of ethnology in the late 19th to early 20th century. He is known not only as a prosewriter, but also as a collector of folkloric and ethnographic materials, their researcher. A considerable part of the materials collected in Podillia and Chernihivshchyna (folk songs, proverbs, sayings, legends, ballads) was published. At the same time, M. Kotsiubynskyi studied not only Ukrainian folklore, but Moldovan and Crimean Tatar ones as well, which is proved by the presence of numerous ethnographisms in his literary works.

Eastern Halychyna, in particular, Hutsulshchyna, which probably fascinated M. Kotsiubynskyi after his acquaintance with the famous historian Volodymyr Hnatiuk, occupied a special place in M. Kotsyubynskyi’s ethnological studies. Apparently, under his influence and with his help M. Kotsiubynskyi stayed in Kryvorivnia twice (1910, 1911), where he has collected rich ethnographic material, used later while writing the novella Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, and became acquainted with the land during communication with the Hutsul people. Communication with Ivan Franko, Mykhaylo Hrushevskyi, Volodymyr Shukhevych and other members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv was equally important for the crystallization of the novella’s plot.

The combination of impressionism and psychologism with the collected folkloric and ethnographic materials, allowed M. Kotsiubynskyi to create the novella Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, and to reveal the inner world of its principal characters, their feelings and experiences, as well as a worldview of the Hutsul people, to depict an authentic image of Hutsulshchyna.

 

Keywords

Mykhaylo Kotsiubynskyi, ethnologicaal activity, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, sources, Hutsulshchyna.

 

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