Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe.
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 wi...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Mapping of Ukraine; Ukraine on Historical Maps of Europe; I. Mapping the Nation: History, Politics, and Religion; 1. The Western Dimension of the Making of Modern Ukraine; 2. Cultural Fault Lines and Political Divisions: The Legacy of History in Contemporary Ukraine; 3. Ukraine's Road to Europe: Still a Controversial Issue; 4. Finis Europae: Contemporary Ukraine's Conflicting Inheritances from the Humanistic "West" and the Byzantine "East" (A Triptych).
- 5. The Status of Religion in Ukraine in Relation to European Standards6. Missionaries and Pluralism: How the Law Changed the Religious Landscape in Ukraine; 7. The Future of Ukraine if Values Determine the Course: What Opinion Polls Disclose About Public Attitudes on Political and Economic Issues; 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: The Literary Paradigm.
- 10. Mirrors, Windows, and Maps: The Typology of Cultural Identification in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature11. Cultural Perceptions, Mirror Images, and Western Identification in New Ukrainian Drama; 12. Ukrainian Avant-Garde Poetry Today: Bu-Ba-Bu and Others; 13. Nativists versus Westernizers: Problems of Cultural Identity in Ukrainian Literature of the 1990s; 14. Back to the Golden Age: The Discourse of Nostalgia in Galicia in the 1990s; 15. Symbols of Transformation: The Reflection of Ukraine's "Identity Shift" in Four Ukrainian Novels of the 1990s.
- 16. Choosing a Europe: Andrukhovych, Izdryk, and the New Ukrainian Literature17. Images of Bonding and Social Decay in Contemporary Ukrainian Prose: Reading Serhii Zhadan and Anatolii Dnistrovy; 18. Women's Literary Discourse and National Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine; III. Manifesting Culture: Language, Media, and the Arts; 19. The European Dimension Within the Current Controversy over the Ukrainian Language Standard; 20. Colonial Linguistic Reflexes in a Post-Soviet Setting: The Galician Variant of the Ukrainian Language and Anti-Ukrainian Discourse in Contemporary Internet Sources.
- 21. Criticism and Confidence: Reshaping the Linguistic Marketplace in Post-Soviet Ukraine22. Linguistic Strategies of Imperial Appropriation: Why Ukraine Is Absent from World Film History; 23. Ukraine's Changing Communicative Space: Destination Europe or the Soviet Past?; 24. Envisioning Europe: Ruslana's Rhetoric of Identity; 25. Contemporary Ukrainian Art and the Twentieth Century Avant-Garde; 26. "The Past Is My Beginning" ... : On the Recent Music Scene in Ukraine; Index; About the Editors, Authors, Translator.
