Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma (eBook)

Tamara Hundorova (Autor)

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2025
208 Seiten
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
979-8-89783-117-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The main themes in the book are postcolonial traumas in relation to past empires and old historiographical narratives; post-totalitarian consciousness, which is characterized by sociocultural ruptures, postcolonial resentment, and intergenerational crises; and post-memory as a means of overcoming historical and familial traumas. Against the backdrop of the Chornobyl catastrophe, the book examines the meeting of different generations and views the clown Verka Serduchka as a mediator between the transition from the Soviet to the post-Soviet world. The book focuses on three significant Ukrainian novels written between the two Maidans: The Museum of Abandoned Secrets by Oksana Zabuzhko (2009), Voroshilovgrad by Serhiy Zhadan (2010), and Notes of a Ukrainian Madman by Lina Kostenko (2010).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.12.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Ukrainian Studies
• Übersetzer: Tanya Savchynska
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Slavistik
• Schlagworte: Chernobyl literature • contemporary Ukraine • cultural trauma • Eastern European Literature • Intergenerational Trauma • Lina Kostenko • Literary criticism • Memory Studies • Notes of a Ukrainian Madman • novel analysis • Oksana Zabuzhko • Postcolonial Trauma • Postmemory • Post-Soviet Studies • post-totalitarian consciousness • Serhiy Zhadan • The Museum of Abandoned Secrets • Ukrainian literature • Verka Serduchka • Voroshilovgrad
• ISBN-13: 979-8-89783-117-3 / 9798897831173