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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809769403321

Autore

Shkandrij Myroslav <1950->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-282-85950-1

9786612859502

0-7735-6949-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 354 pages)

Disciplina

891.709/358

Soggetti

Russian literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Ukrainian literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Russian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Ukrainian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Imperialism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.