The Iconotrop of a Body in Female Postmodern Literature (on the Material of Works of Maria Matios and Oksana Zabushko)

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the specificity of the iconotropism of female physicality in feminist literature. We interpret the term "iconotropism" as a synthesis of visual and semiotic in sense modeling processes. This term denotes what is actually the basis of a literary work - the visual interpretation of its content, the peculiarity of the reader's perception of a work of art, and people's thirst for visualization. Based on this statement, the article analyzes the key ideas of representatives of feminist discourse in correlation with the projection of these ideas on modern texts in "women's literature". Key vectors affecting the iconotropy of the female body in Ukrainian postmodern literature are also investigated. The methodological basis of the research is the works of representatives of feminist criticism V.Woolf, E.Showalter, H. Cixous, whose views influenced the further development of the feminist movement and women's literature.

As a result, it was determined that the iconotropism of the female body in the modern feminist discourse is characterized by the desire to name female organs, processes inherent only to the female body, and elements of the body without euphemism and exclusion, which until recently was imposed by society under the oppression of forbidden associations. It is also possible to single out the desire of a woman not only to have her own space, where she can feel protected both externally and mentally. Her body should become a comfortable, harmonious space for her, which a woman can dispose of independently. This fact was reflected in the literature on the correlation of visual images of the female body and female space. In addition, the figurative dominant of female pain acquires special importance in the artistic structure of the work, which also affects the iconotropy and reception of the female body.