Abstract

The article highlights the artistic specifics of the anti- and postcolonial discourse of the stories "Lullaby" by the American writer of Indian origin Leslie Marmon Silko and "Thunderstorms over Turovets" by the Ukrainian novelist Volodymyr Danylenko. Through the prism of the conflict "globalized world - ecumenical world" the peculiarities of the embodiment of the drama of national self-awareness are considered.

Key words: anticolonialism, postcolonialism, conflict, crisis, national identity, psychological trauma, alienation.