Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe
by Zaleska Onyshkevych,Larissa M.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-05-15
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
he concept of a "return to Europe" has been integral to the movement for Ukrainian national rebirth since the nineteenth century. This fascinating book explores Ukraine's European cultural connection, especially as it has been reesablished since the country achieved independence in 1991. It covers history, politics, and religion; literary culture; and language, popular culture, and the arts.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: The Mapping of Ukraine | |
| Mapping the Nation: History, Politics, and Religion | |
| The Western Dimension of the Making of Modern Ukraine | |
| Cultural Faultlines and Political Cleavages,: The Legacy of History in Contemporary Ukraine | |
| Ukraine's Road to Europe: A Still Controversial Issue | |
| Finis Europae: Contemporary Ukraine's Conflicting Inheritance from the Humanistic "West" and the Byzantine "East" (A Triptych) | |
| The Status of Religion in Ukraine and European Standards | |
| Missionaries and Pluralism: How the Law Changed the Religious Landscape in Ukraine | |
| The Future of Ukraine, If Values Determine the Course: What Opinion Polls Disclose About Public Attitudes on Political and Economic Issues | |
| Accountability for Human Rights Violations by Soviet and Other Communist Regimes and the Position of the Council of Europe | |
| Collective Memory as a Device for Constructing a New Gender Myth | |
| Reflecting Identities: The Literary Paradigm | |
| Mirrors, Windows, and Maps: The Topology of Cultural Identification in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature | |
| Cultural Perceptions, Mirror Images, and Western Identification in New Ukrainian Drama | |
| Ukrainian Avant-Garde Poetry Today: Bu-Ba-Bu and Others | |
| Nativists vs. Westernizers: Problems of Cultural Identity in Ukrainian Literature of the 1990s | |
| Back to the Golden Age: The Discourse of Nostalgia in Galicia in the 1990s | |
| Symbols of Transformation: The Reflection of Ukraine's "Identity Shift" in Four Ukrainian Novels of the 1990s | |
| Choosing a Europe: Andrukhovych, Izdryk, and the New Ukrainian Literature | |
| Images of Bonding and Social Decay in Contemporary Ukrainian Prose: Reading Serhii Zhadan and Anatolii Dnistrovyi | |
| Women's Literary Discourse and National Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine | |
| Manifesting Culture: Language, Media, and the Arts | |
| The European Dimension Within the Current Controversy over the Ukrainian Language Standard | |
| Colonial Linguistic Reflexes in a Post-Soviet Setting: The Galician Variant of the Ukrainian Language and Anti-Ukrainian Discourse in Contemporary Internet Sources | |
| Criticism and Confidence: Reshaping of the Linguistic Marketplace in Post-Soviet Ukraine | |
| Linguistic Strategies of Imperial Appropriation: Why Ukraine Is Absent from World Film History | |
| Ukraine's Changing Communicative Space: Destination Europe or the Soviet Past? | |
| Envisioning Europe: Ruslana's Rhetoric of Identity | |
| Contemporary Ukrainian Art and the Twentieth Century Avant-Garde | |
| "The Past Is My Beginning...": On the Future of Music in Ukraine | |
| About the Authors | |
| Index | |
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