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This paper aims to examine the causes of the golden age of women writers in the post-Soviet era and the way women writers portray human beings and history. Unlike in the past, women writers focused on a ‘Little man’ and pursued a new strategy to resist Master Narratives of the Soviet Union, which is defined as ‘Petit Narrative’ in the paper. In this respect, the works of Alexievich and Ulitskaya were analyzed. Soviet utopia was strengthened by a variety of historical events including revolutions, civil wars, and World Wars but in the midst of these, individuals were left scarred and their lives were shattered. Women writers took notice of the very shattered consciousness of individuals. They listened carefully to the ‘different’ voice of the ‘little men’ not to the historical arguments. Alexievich payed attention to the inner scar of individuals in ‘voice of utopia’ cycles and developed documentary fiction recording their voice. Ulitskaya used the history of Soviet utopia as inadvertent backgrounds in her novel titled ‘Medea and Her Children’ and described more intensely and fascinatingly an epic life of little men than the history of the empire. Like this using ‘Petit Narrative’, women writers present the relationship between individuals and history in the light of subversion and open the door to new possibilities for the 21st century literature.
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Master Narrative, Petit Narrative, Postmodernism, Women Literature, Little Man, Alexievich, Ulitskaya
