Behind the Scenes of the Empire: Essays on Cultural Relationships between Ukraine and Russia
by Vira Ageyeva
Description
Much has already been written about Ukrainian-Russian relations in the context of Russian interests and priorities. Russia unceremoniously ennobled its history with other people's achievements while depriving Ukrainians of their past. From the Ukrainian's perspective, the story is completely different. For centuries Ukrainian literature has been involved in the anti-colonial discourse. From Kotlyarevsky, Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Kharkiv romantics to the era of modernism and eventually the emergence of contemporary Ukraine, it offered various models of identity, denying imperial claims and asserting its own cultural sufficiency. In this book, the authoritative literary critic Vira Ageyeva analyses the Ukrainian resistance to imperialism and the struggle of Ukraine for the preservation of it's collective memory through the prism of the cultural process.
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Endorsements
Special award from the national radio station UA Radio Culture 2021
Author Biography
Vira Ageyeva is a professor of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy National University. A laureate of Shevchenko National Prise (one of the most prestigious national prises awarded for the contribution to the development of art and culture). Vira is a feminist who was one of the first in the post-Soviet world to talk about the need to revise patriarchal values. The author of a number of essays and books.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Vikhola
- Publication Date 2021
- Orginal LanguageUkrainian
- ISBN/Identifier 9786177960323
- Publication Country or regionUkraine
- Pages360
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleЗа лаштунками імперії. Есеї про українсько-російські культурні відносини
- Original Language AuthorsАгеєва Віра
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