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

Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317473770
• Artikelnr.: 42046153

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

I: Mapping the Nation
1: The Western Dimension of the Making of Modern Ukraine
2: Cultural Fault Lines and Political Divisions
3: Ukraine's Road to Europe
4: Finis Europae
5: The Status of Religion in Ukraine in Relation to European Standards
6: Missionaries and Pluralism
7: The Future of Ukraine if Values Determine the Course
8: Accountability for Human Rights Violations by Soviet and Other Communist Regimes and the Position of the Council of Europe
9: Collective Memory as a Device for Constructing a New Gender Myth
II: Reflecting Identities
10: Mirrors, Windows, and Maps
11: Cultural Perceptions, Mirror Images, and Western Identification in New Ukrainian Drama
12: Ukrainian Avant-Garde Poetry Today
13: Nativists versus Westernizers
14: Back to the Golden Age
15: Symbols of Transformation
16: Choosing a Europe
17: Images of Bonding and Social Decay in Contemporary Ukrainian Prose
18: Women's Literary Discourse and National Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine
III: Manifesting Culture
19: The European Dimension Within the Current Controversy over the Ukrainian Language Standard
20: Colonial Linguistic Reflexes in a Post-Soviet Setting
21: Criticism and Confidence
22: Linguistic Strategies of Imperial Appropriation
23: Ukraine's Changing Communicative Space
24: Envisioning Europe
25: Contemporary Ukrainian Art and the Twentieth Century Avant-Garde
26: ¿The Past Is My Beginning ¿¿