V. DONIY
THE ELEMENTS OF NATIVISM IN THE FILM NOVELS
«ENCHANTED DESNA» BY O. DOVZHENKO
The perception and conscious attitude to the world are forming in the
process of interaction different principles: economic, social, spiritual, cultural, and
ethnic. They form a paradigm of worldviews, mental composition, imagination or
collective representations, which generally are named mentality.
The specific events of historical period determine attitudes, views,
aspirations, goals of human life. The concepts «mentality», «national culture»,
«national identity», «post-totalitarian consciousness», «post-imperial tradition»,
that contain the elements of nativism are actively produced now. Modern
researches of novels by O. Dovzhenko is focusing on issues of national
psychology, mentality transformation, identify the author in the film novels and
scenarios.
Reflection of national reality, nature, history, art studies attempt are
characteristics for works, which are having nativisms’ direction. The main aspects
of the theory of nativizm are discussed in the article. We try to define concepts of
nativism in the film novel «Enchanted Desna» by O. Dovzhenko.
We analyzed the characters of novels and tried to make conclusion that
concepts of nativism are presented in the film novels «Enchanted Desna». We
define such attributes, as love to the beauty of nature, love for native land, respect
to people and their work, sentimentality, lyricism, humor. These definitions are
realized in the characteristics of heroes as ingrained, inherent, distinctive features
of national mentality.