The Post-Chornobyl Library: Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s
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Honorable Mention - American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) 2018-2019 Book Prize
Having exploded on the margins of Europe, Chornobyl marked the end of the Soviet Union and tied the era of postmodernism in Western Europe with nuclear consciousness. The Post-Chornobyl Library in Tamara Hundorova’s book becomes a metaphor of a new Ukrainian literature of the 1990s, which emerges out of the Chornobyl nuclear trauma of the 26th of April, 1986. Ukrainian postmodernism turns into a writing of trauma and reflects the collisions of the post-Soviet time as well as the processes of decolonization of the national culture. A carnivalization of the apocalypse is the main paradigm of the post-Chornobyl text, which appeals to “homelessness” and the repetition of “the end of histories.” Ironic language game, polymorphism of characters, taboo breaking, and filling in the gaps of national culture testify to the fact that the Ukrainians were liberating themselves from the totalitarian past and entering the society of the spectacle. Along this way, the post-Chornobyl character turns into an ironist, meets with the Other, experiences a split of his or her self, and witnesses a shift of geo-cultural landscapes.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644692400 |
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| Publisher: | Academic Studies Press |
| Publication date: | 12/10/2019 |
| Series: | Ukrainian Studies |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 338 |
| File size: | 1 MB |
About the Author
Tamara Hundorova is Chair of the Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Associate of Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. She is the author of Transit Culture: Symptoms of Postcolonial Trauma (2013), Kitsch and Literature: Travesties (2008), The Emerging Word: The Discourse of Early Ukrainian Modernism (1997, 2013), Femina melancholica: Sex and Culture in the Gender Utopia of Olha Kobylianska (2002). She taught at Toronto University, Harvard Summer School, Greifswald Ukrainicum, Ukrainian Free University. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, a Petro Jacyk Distinguished Fellowship (Harvard University), a visiting professorship at the SURC (Hokkaido University) and a fellowship at Monash University (Australia).
Dr. Sergiy Yakovenko teaches in the Department of English at MacEwan University. He is the author of Romantics, Aesthetes, Nietzscheans: Ukrainian and Polish Literary Criticism of the Early Modernist Period (2006) and Poetics and Anthropology: Essays on Ukrainian and Polish Prose on the 20th Century (2007), both books in Ukrainian.
Dr. Tamara Hundorova is Chair of the Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Associate of Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. She is the author of Транзитна культура. Симптоми постколоніальної травми (2013) [Transit Culture: Symptoms of Postcolonial Trauma], Кіч і література. Травестії (2008) [Kitsch and Literature: Travesties], ПроЯвлення слова. Дискурсія раннього українського модернізму (1997; 2009) [The Emerging Word: The Discourse of Early Ukrainian Modernism], Femina melancholica. Стать і культура в гендерній утопії Ольги Кобилянської (2002) [Femina melancholica. Sex and Culture in the Gender Utopia of Olha Kobylianska], Франко – не Каменяр (2006) [Franko Not the Stonecutter] and numerous articles on Ukrainian literature, modernism, postmodernism, gender studies, postcolonial trauma and kitsch. She taught at Toronto University, Harvard Summer School, Greifswald Ukrainicum, Ukrainian Free University, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Kyiv National University. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, a Petro Jacyk Distinguished Fellowship (Harvard University), a visiting professorship at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (Hokkaido University) and the MUNK School of Global Affairs (Toronto University), and a fellowship at Monash University (Australia).
Dr. Sergiy Yakovenko teaches in the Department of English at MacEwan University. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta. He is the author of Romantics, Aesthetes, Nietzscheans: Ukrainian and Polish Literary Criticism of the Early Modernist Period (2006) and Poetics and Anthropology: Essays on Ukrainian and Polish Prose on the 20th Century (2007), both books in Ukrainian.
Table of Contents
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Nuclear Discourse, or Literature after Chornobyl
2. Nuclear Apocalypse and Postmodernism
3. The Socialist Realist Chornobyl Discourse
4. Nuclear (Non)-Representation
5. Chornobyl and Virtuality
6. Chornobyl and the Cultural Archive
7. Chornobyl Postmodern Topography
8. Chornobyl and the Crisis of Language
9. Postmodernism: The Synchronization of History
10. Ukrainian Postmodernism: The Historical Framework
11. A Farewell to the Classic
12. The “Ex-Centricity” of the Great Character
13. Postmodernism and the “Cultural Organic”
14. Postmodernism as Ironic Behavior
15. Bu-Ba-Bu: A New Literary Formation
16. The Carnivalesque Postmodern
17. Yuri Andrukhovych’s Carnival: A History of Self-Destruction
18. After the Carnival: Bu-Ba-Bu Postmortem
19. Narrative Apocalypse: Taras Prokhasko’s Topographic Writing
20. The Virtual Apocalypse: The Post-Verbal Writing of Yurko Izdryk
21. The Grotesques of the Kyiv Underground: Dibrova—Zholdak—Poderviansky
22. Feminist Postmodernism: Oksana Zabuzhko
23. Postmodern Europe: Revision, Nostalgia, and Revenge
24. The Chornobyl Apocalypse of Yevhen Pashkovsky
25. The Postmodern Homelessness of Serhiy Zhadan
26. Volodymyr Tsybulko’s Pop-Postmodernism
27. The (De)KONstructed Postmodernism of Yuriy Tarnawsky
28. PS. A Comment from the “End of Postmodernism”
29. Types of Postmodernism
What People are Saying About This
"Readers of Tamara Hundorova’s 2005 Postchornobyl’s’ka biblioteka will have to read again: this is no mere translation, but a revisitation, generously fleshed out with more and new interpretive penetration, of a Ukrainian critical classic. The cultural turbulence, the paradoxical overlayering of incompatible worldviews and extravagant literary stances that came after Chornobyl and provided a chorus for the demise (forever, it then optimistically seemed) of Sovietness, cultural as well as political—these find their deservedly intricate, masterfully wrought recreation and interrogation in a collection of indispensable essays by a scholar of the first magnitude." —Marko Pavlyshyn, Monash University
“Tamara Hundorova presents the Ukrainian carnival as a high manifestation of postmodernism but also a unique example of cultural power. Rich in examples, confident in approach and constructive in expectations, this book is probably the best analysis of Ukrainian literature, grasped in its seminal period between the Maidan rebellion and the Servant of the People movement.” —Alexander Etkind, Mikhail M. Bakhtin Professor of History of Russia-Europe Relations, European UniversityInstitute, Florence
“The Chornobyl nuclear disaster affected much more than human health and the environment. It also challenged the human spirit and gave birth to the rise of new thinking not only about nuclear energy and politics but also about culture, literature, and identity. Nowhere has that transformation become more profound than in Ukraine, where Chornobyl had jump-started the era of mass politics and set the country on the path to political independence. As it is masterfully argued by Tamara Hundorova, Chornobyl also had a lasting impact on Ukrainian literature, helping to end the era of socialist realism and inaugurate a new post-modern literature and worldview. The Post-Chornobyl Library is not only a new and provocative look at Ukrainian literature, but also a highly original contribution to a broader debate on postmodernism and interrelationship between literature and ecology.” —Serhii Plokhy, author of Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe