The PostChornobyl Library: Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s
by Tamara Hundorova
Description
Having exploded on the margins of Europe, Chornobyl marked the end of the Soviet Union and tied the era of postmodernism in Western Europe with nuclear consciousness. The Post-Chornobyl Library in Tamara Hundorova’s book becomes a metaphor of a new Ukrainian literature of the 1990s, which emerges out of the Chornobyl nuclear trauma of the 26th of April, 1986. Ukrainian postmodernism turns into a writing of trauma and reflects the collisions of the post-Soviet time as well as the processes of decolonization of the national culture. A carnivalization of the apocalypse is the main paradigm of the post-Chornobyl text, which appeals to “homelessness” and the repetition of “the end of histories.” Ironic language game, polymorphism of characters, taboo breaking, and filling in the gaps of national culture testify to the fact that the Ukrainians were liberating themselves from the totalitarian past and entering the society of the spectacle. Along this way, the post-Chornobyl character turns into an ironist, meets with the Other, experiences a split of his or her self, and witnesses a shift of geo-cultural landscapes.
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Endorsements
2019 Ukrainian Book of the Year Award nominee
Author Biography
Literary scholar, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, head of the Department of Literary Theory at the Taras Shevchenko Institute of LIteratyre, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Recent books: Kitch and Literature (Kyiv, 2008), Revelation of the Word: The Discourse of the Early Ukrainian Modernism (Kyiv, 2009, 2nd ed.), Post-Chornobyl Library: Ukrainian Literary Postmodernism (Kyiv, 2013, 3rd ed.), and Transit Culture: Symptoms of the Postcolonial Trauma (Kyiv, 2013).
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Krytyka
- Publication Date 2005
- Orginal LanguageUkrainian
- ISBN/Identifier 9789668978685
- Publication Country or regionUkraine
- Pages344
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleПіслячорнобильська бібліотека. Український літературний постмодерн.
- Original Language AuthorsГундорова Тамара
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