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Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe

By: Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych,Maria G. Rewakowicz

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Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe

By: Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych,Maria G. Rewakowicz

The concept of a 'return to Europe' has been integral to the movement for Ukrainian national rebirth since the nineteenth century. While the goal of a more fully reformed politics remains elusive, numerous expressions of Ukrainian culture continue to develop in the European spirit. This wide-ranging book explores Ukraine's European cultural connection, especially as it has been reestablished since the country achieved independence in 1991. The contributors discusses many aspects of Ukraine's contemporary culture - history, politics, and religion in Part I; literary culture in Part II; and language, popular culture, and the arts in Part III. What emerges is a fascinating picture of a young country grappling with its divided past and its colonial heritage, yet asserting its voice and preferences amid the diverse and at times conflicting realities of the contemporary political scene. Europe becomes a powerful point of reference, a measure against which the situation in post-independence Ukraine is gouged and debated. This framework allows for a better understanding of the complexities deeply ingrained in the social fabric of Ukrainian society.

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1317473787

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Ukraine's Quest for Identity

Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011

By: Maria G. Rewakowicz

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Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011

By: Maria G. Rewakowicz

Winner of the 2019 Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian Studies. Ukraine's Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011 is the first study that looks at the literary process in post-independence Ukraine comprehensively and attempts to draw the connection between literary production and identity construction. In its quest for identity Ukraine has followed a path similar to other postcolonial societies, the main characteristics of which include a slow transition, hybridity, and identities negotiated on the center-periphery axis. This monograph concentrates on major works of literature produced during the first two decades of independence and places them against the background of clearly identifiable contexts such as regionalism, gender issues, language politics, social ills, and popular culture. It also shows that Ukrainian literary politics of that period privileges the plurality and hybridity of national and cultural identities. By engaging postcolonial discourse and insisting that literary production is socially instituted, Maria G. Rewakowicz explores the reasons behind the tendency toward cultural hybridity and plural identities in literary imagination. Ukraine’s Quest for Identity will appeal to all those keen to study cultural, social and political ramifications of the collapse of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe and beyond.

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1498538827

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Literature, Exile, Alterity

The New York Group of Ukrainian Poets

By: Maria G. Rewakowicz

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Literature, Exile, Alterity

The New York Group of Ukrainian Poets

By: Maria G. Rewakowicz

This pioneering book is the first to present the postwar phenomenon of the New York Group of Ukrainian émigré poets as a case study for exploring cultural and aesthetic ramifications of exile. It focuses on the poets' diasporic and transnational connections both with their country of origin and their adopted homelands, underscoring the group's role in the shaping of the cultural and literary image of Ukraine abroad. Displacements, forced or voluntary, engender states of alterity, states of living in-between, living in the interstices of different cultures and different linguistic realities. The poetry of the founding members of the New York Group reflects these states admirably. The poets accepted their exilic condition with no grudges and nurtured the link with their homeland via texts written in the mother tongue. This account of the group's output and legacy will appeal to all those eager to explore the poetry of East European nations and to those interested in larger cultural contexts for the development of European modernisms.

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Studies in Russian and Slavic

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1618117777

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Ukraine's Quest for Identity

Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011

By: Maria G. Rewakowicz

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Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011

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Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe

Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe

Ukraine's Quest for Identity

Ukraine's Quest for Identity

Literature, Exile, Alterity

Literature, Exile, Alterity

Ukraine's Quest for Identity

Ukraine's Quest for Identity

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