REFUGEE DIARIES: A DISCOURSE ON FORCED DISPLACEMENT
Journal: Astraea
Year: 2024

This study analyzes three refugee diaries published in 2022-2023. These are “That Crazy Year” by Yevhenia Kononenko, “The Night Was” by Svitlana Tkachenko, and “Refugee” by Julia Mattu. All three works present the discourse of forced displacement. These texts analyze the traumatic experiences collected and meticulously recorded (dates and events that are also evidence of the crimes of the Nazi regime). The symptoms of the trauma of forced displacement, which are partly physical in nature, are al