Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian: Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics

ISBN-13: 9783631816622 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 294 str.

Marco Puleri

Opis

The author investigates the interplay between literature, politics, market and identity in contemporary Ukraine (1991-2018). The sections of this book explore the contested role of Russophone culture in Ukraine, highlighting the impact of Russian-Ukrainian political relations on social developments in post-independence and post-Maidan times.

Recenzje

This book will be of interest to anyone working in the field of post-Soviet studies or interested in post-Soviet subjectivities, in that it makes a clear case for others to consider hybridity as an analytical tool in their studies of post-Soviet contexts. (Anna Vozna, Ab Imperio, 2020/4, 336-340)

Marco Puleri's 291-page book reframes the simplified notions of identity clashes in Ukrainian society and demystifies the perception of Ukrainian Russophonia [...] The volume can be considered as an indispensable read for both students of social sciences and humanities, as well as for researchers interested in the subject (Géza Barta, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2021)

Marco Puleri's book is a thought-provoking study which for the first time consequently maps the Russophone literature from Ukraine as a hybrid discourse and a liminal cultural practice. (Alexander Chertenko, Ideology and Politics Journal, 2 (16), 2020: 382-391)

This book is an excellent attempt in unmasking the current situation of Ukrainian culture. This book will appeal to scholars of both Ukraine and Russia, helping to set the stage for future analysis of identity in greater post-Soviet space. (Dexter Blackwell, H-Net Reviews, July 2021).

[...] diese Arbeit einen äußerst wichtigen Beitrag zur gegenwärtigen Slawistik mit ihren Teildisziplinen dar. Neben seinen konkreten, überaus (er-) kenntnisreichen Analysen, die sowohl für RussistInnen als auch für UkrainistInnen von großem Interesse sein werden, liefert seine Arbeit dringend notwendige Impulse für die konzeptionelle Weiterentwicklung, ja vielleicht sogar Neuausrichtung der zukünftigen Slawistik im Allgemeinen und der Russistik im Besonderen. (Miriam Finkelstein, Anzeiger für Slavische Philologie, (XLVII) 2019, 187-196)

A rendere originale e pionieristico questo contributo sono non solo l'oggetto di studi e la cospicua mole di letteratura specialistica con cui intraprende un proficuo dialogo critico, bensì anche il fatto di fornire una prospettiva sui più recenti sviluppi socioculturali in Ucraina dal punto di vista degli intellettuali russofoni e della loro produzione letteraria; il volume costituisce pertanto una lettura che risulterà assai utile non solo per chi si interessi di Ucraina, ma per chiunque voglia conoscere meglio le complesse sfaccettature della realtà culturale dei paesi post-sovietici (Fabio De Leonardis, Nazioni e regioni, 16, 2020, 76-78).

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.