Russia and Ukraine: Literature and the Discourse of Empire from Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780773522343)

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.

Author: Myroslav Shkandrij
ISBN-10: 0773522344
ISBN-13: 9780773522343
Publisher: Carleton University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/09/2001
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.30d