THE FEMALE BODY AS A REPRESENTATION OF POSTCOLONIAL TRAUMA IN UKRAINIAN AND WORLD LITERATURES

In contemporary humanities, corporeality occupies a central place, especially within feminist and postcolonial discourses. In literature, the female body appears not merely as a biological category but as a text of culture—a space of social and political conflict, memory, and trauma. The postcolonial dimension of corporeality allows us to analyze how power, subjugation, and resistance are reproduced through the body. In the Ukrainian context, this issue is particularly relevant due to the historical experience of colonial dependence and cultural traumatization. Literary representations of the female body reflect the process of restoring subjectivity, where bodily memory and silence become tools of decolonization and cultural resistance. Comparative analysis of Ukrainian and world texts demonstrates both the universality of postcolonial trauma and the specificity of the Ukrainian experience, in which corporeality serves as a language of memory, resistance, and the reclamation of national and gender identity.