The War and the Problem of Identity in the Prose by the Ukrainian Diaspora in the 1940s–1980s

For the first time, the article systematically and comprehensively investigates the problem of „a man and war”, „personality and national identity” in the texts by writers of the Ukrainian Diaspora of the 1940s-1980s. It is founds out why these issues have long been relevant in the literature of the Ukrainian Diaspora, which factors have influenced the development of historical, social and socio-psychological prose, and enhanced its documentary and biographical origin. Peculiarities of the reception of war in the Diaspora prose are analyzed through the prism of a witness, chronicler of the events. It is a study of war in different coordinates: historical, psychological, social, philosophical, existential. Also the article are comprehended the specificity of the Ukrainian-centric model of war in the literature by the Ukrainian Diaspora and ways of refuting a number of Soviet myths cultivated by many mainland writers and historians. The subject of the study were the big prose by the Ukrainian Diaspora, including Ivan Bagryany, Vitaly Bender, Dokia Humenna, Igor Kachurovsky, Oleksa Kobets, Igor Kostetsky, Oleksandr Lugovoi, Stepan Lyubomirsky, Ulas Samchuk etc., their critical literary practice and correspondence