Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West / Thomas M. Prymak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prymak, Thomas M. (Thomas Michael), 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations in literature.

International relations.

Relations.

Ukraine--Relations--Middle East.

Ukraine.

Middle East--Relations--Ukraine.

Middle East.

Ukraine--Relations--Europe, Western.

Europe, Western--Relations--Ukraine.

Europe, Western.

Western Europe.

Middle East Region.

Physical Description:

xiv, 306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press , [2021]

Summary:

"For decades, Ukrainian contacts with the outside world were minimal, impeded by politics, ideology, and geography. But prior to the Soviet period the country enjoyed diverse exchanges with, on the one hand, its Islamic neighbours, the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire, and, on the other, its central and western European neighbours, especially Poland and France. Thomas Prymak addresses geographical knowledge, international travel, political conflicts, historical relations with religiously diverse neighbours, artistic developments, and literary and language contacts to smash old stereotypes about Ukrainian isolation and tell a vivid and original story. The book treats a wide range of subjects, including Ukrainian travelers in the Middle East, from pilgrims to the Holy Land to political exiles in Turkey and Iran; Tartar slave raiding in Ukraine; the poetry of Taras Shevchenko and the Russian war against Imam Shamil in the High Caucasus; Ukrainian themes and the French writers Honoré de Balzac and Prosper Mérimée; Rembrandt's mysterious painting today titled The Polish Rider; and Ilya Repin's legendary painting of the Zaporozhian Cossacks writing their satirical letter mocking the Turkish sultan. Drawing together political and cultural history, languages and etymology, and folklore and art history, Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West is an original interdisciplinary study that reintroduces Ukraine's long-overlooked connections beyond Eastern Europe."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

From Abbot Daniel to Count Potocki: Middle East Travel to 1800

From the "Emir" to the Metropolitan: Middle East Travel (1800-1914)

Tatar Slave Raiding and Turkish Captivity in Ukrainian History and Legend

Maksymovych and the National Awakening

Shamil, Shevchenko, and the Chef-d'oeuvre, "The Caucasus": A Poem as Seen from Afar

All about Ève: The Realist Balzac's Ukrainian Dreamland

La Guzla, Gogol, and the Cossacks: Prosper Mérimée Looks East

Deciphering Rembrandt's Polish Rider

Message to Mehmed: Repin Creates His Zaporozhian Cossacks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Prymak, Thomas M. (Thomas Michael), 1948- Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West.

ISBN:

0228005779

9780228005773

0228005787

9780228005780

OCLC:

1202054781

Publisher Number:

99987411005