Changing the perception of Ukraine in the European space through war diaries
Journal: University of Bucharest Review Literary and Cultural Studies Series
Year: 2025

"The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has not only transformed geopolitical realities, but also reshaped cultural and imagological discourses across Europe. War diaries, as one of the most immediate and authentic literary responses to wartime experience, have emerged as a crucial medium for rearticulating Ukraine’s self-image and its representation in the European cultural space. This article analyses Ukrainian wartime diaries as imagological texts that mediate between the construc