For the first time in domestic science about literature the analysis of materials of diaspora women’s prose of the second half of the XX century with the system-analytical approach to the interpretation of genre-style peculiarities of epic works has been carried out in the dissertation. The object of the research is novels, narratives, as well as the most representative prose –fictional essay, fragmentary genres – sketch, pattern (watercolor), sketch. On the example of women’s little prose various types of stories have been considered, including Christmas, social, historical, ethnographic, «detective», story-portrait, psychological narrative. The genre-style system of women’s prose of the Ukrainian diaspora of the second half of the XX century has been explored. Socio-psychological dominants of works, which are the basis of structural, semantic and stylistic specificity of poetological components of artistic creativity of prose writers, have been revealed. The phenomenon of sensitive problems of Ukrainian history, which are and remain the material that prompts the artists of the word to create artistic prose, has been revealed. We consider women’s literature as a socio-cultural and artisticaesthetic phenomenon. Its essence is expressed by the creation of women-writers of texts that radiate their peculiar perception of the world, the expression of elegant vocabulary in writing, and thus the texts are presented to the reader by representatives of women’s artistic practice. A prose work that takes as its basis the historical event, the fact is modeled on the historical plot. The latter in artistic form represents a certain era or period of history. In prose historical truth is synthesized with artistic one, historical event – with artistic fiction. Women-writers of Ukraine under the conditions of poly-ethnic culture did not fail the chosen path, did not multiply the glory of foreign-language culture, but they modeled high-quality works in the Ukrainian language far from the Motherland, their native land. Such a fact testifies to their self-consciousness, the tendency to comprehend, and the susceptibility of their own I-ego on the national basis. It has been proved that the diaspora women’s prose of the second half of the XX century announced the updating of the genre-style and thematic system, and such a step has been an intellectual opposition to the prose of the socialist realism era. D. Humenna, O. Mak, L. Kovalenko «opened up», expanded all the historical space of Ukraine up to the XX century, «populated» their prose with the characters of different layers of population, skillfully depicted psychological types whose voices sounded different tones-timbres, and composite receptions, stories, stylistic parameters in a specially updated lyrical and ornamental writing on samples of Western European culture with the emphasis on national identity, similarity and mentality.
19 The results of the dissertation can be used as a material for lectures on the history of Ukrainian literature of the XX century in higher education institutions, colleges, gymnasia and general educational schools with advanced study of humanities, as well as - in the preparation of relevant manuals, special courses on national writers, in particular autobiographic or historical prose, when writing scientific works on the history and theory of literature, course and diploma projects by students of philological disciplines. The materials of the dissertation and its conclusions will be useful for teachers-philologists of educational institutions of various types. Key words: genre, style, world outlook, deixis, narrator, diaspora, women’s prose, psychologism, symbolism.
