Russia and Ukraine : literature and the discourse of empire from Napoleonic to postcolonial times / Myroslav Shkandrij.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shkandrij, Myroslav, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Ukrainian literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Ukrainian literature.

Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Ukrainian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Imperialism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 354 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Concepts of civilizational superiority and redemptive assimilation, widely held among nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals, helped to form stereotypes of Ukraine and Ukrainians in travel writings, textbooks, and historical fiction, stereotypes that have been reactivated in ensuing decades. Both Russian and Ukrainian writers have explored the politics of identity in the post-Soviet period, but while the canon of Russian imperial thought is well known, the tradition of resistance B which in the Ukrainian case can be traced as far back as the meeting of the Russian and Ukrainian polities and cultures of the seventeenth century B is much less familiar. Shkandrij demonstrates that Ukrainian literature has been marginalized in the interests of converting readers to imperial and assimilatory designs by emphasizing narratives of reunion and brotherhood and denying alterity.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Literature and Empire

Imperial Borderlands in Russian Literature

Ukraine in Russian Imperial Discourse

Counternarratives in Ukrainian Literature

A Clash of Discourses

Modernism’s National Narrative

Subverting Leviathan

The Postcolonial Perspective

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85950-1

9786612859502

0-7735-6949-9

OCLC:

929120680