Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian  Paid

Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics

by Marco Puleri (Author)
©2020, 294 Pages

Series: Postcolonial Perspectives on Eastern Europe, Volume 8

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What is the role and position of Russophone/Russian culture in Ukraine today? How can the dynamics of Ukrainian culture lend insight into the possibility of a global Russian culture, or multiple Russian cultures, in the contemporary world? The author responds to these questions by investi-gating the interplay between literature, politics, market, and identity in the contemporary Ukrainian cultural process (1991–2018). This book explores the contested encounters of the Russian language and culture with other languages, cultures, and traditions in the post-Soviet space, highlighting pressing contemporary issues related to—and affected by—political and social developments.

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration

Introduction: From (Global) Russian to Ukrainian

Culture—and Back Again

From Russianness to Russophonia

In-between (Literary) Russophonia

Recasting “Ukrainianness” through the Prism of “Russianness”

The Long Road to Post-Soviet Transition: A Russophone

Perspective

Part I: From Culture to Politics—Displaced Hybridity/ies

(1991–2013)

Chapter 1 The Missing Hybridity: Framing the

Ukrainian Cultural Space

Ukraine: A Laboratory of Political and Cultural Identity/ies

Shifting Social Dynamics in Post-Soviet Ukraine

New (Old?) Cultural Standards in the Post-Soviet Era

Post-Soviet Russophonia in Ukraine: An Intellectual (and

Political) Debate

In Search of a New Self-Determination

Chapter 2 Post-Soviet (Russophone) Ukraine Speaks Back 81

Ukrains’ka Rosiis’komovna literatura versus Rosiis’ka literatura

Ukrainy

The Self-Identification in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature in

Russian

At the Intersection of Two Cultural Models

From Marginality to Minority

Chapter 3 A Minor Perspective on National Narrative(s):

Deterritorializing Post-Imperial Epistemology

Andrei Kurkov: The Displaced Transition in Mass Literature

Of Other Spaces (and Of Other Times): Aleksei Nikitin’s

Literary Heterotopias

Vladimir Rafeenko: The Ukrainian “Magical Realism”

Part II: From Politics to Culture—After Revolution of

Hybridity (2014–2018)

Chapter 4 Hybridity Reconsidered: Ukrainian Border

Crossing after the “Crisis”

Dialectic of Transition from Post-Soviet to Post-Maidan:

Between Old and New Narratives

Moving Centripetally: Reconsidering Hybridity

The (Political) Acceleration of Cultural Change

Chapter 5 Values for the Sake of the (Post-Soviet)

Nation

Towards Shifting Cultural Policies in the Post-Maidan Era

Envisioning Identity Markers after the Ukraine Crisis

At the Crossroads between Normative Measures and Blurred

Cultural Boundaries in the Post-Soviet Space

Chapter 6 Towards a Postcolonial Ethics: Rewriting

Ukraine in the “Enemy’s Language”

Demistifying Anticolonial Myths: The “Ukrainian Russians”

Transgressing the (National) Code: Recasting History and

Language in Light of War

The End of the Transition?

In Place of a Conclusion: The Future of “Russianness”

in Post-Maidan Ukraine

Bibliography

Index

Pages:
294
Year:
2020
ISBN (HARDBACK):
9783631816622 (Active)
ISBN (EPUB):
9783631823675 (Active)
ISBN (PDF):
9783631823668 (Active)
Language:
English
Published:
Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2020. 294 pp.

Marco Puleri is Research Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. His research interests include contemporary Russian and Ukrainian sociocultural developments and nation-building in the post-Soviet area.

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