The post-Chornobyl library : Ukrainian postmodernism of the 1990s

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The post-Chornobyl library : Ukrainian postmodernism of the 1990s

Tamara Hundorova ; translated by Sergiy Yakovenko

(Ukrainian studies)

Academic Studies Press, 2019

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-313) and index

Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University--Back cover

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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.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Nuclear Discourse, or Literature after Chornobyl 2. Nuclear Apocalypse and Postmodernism 3. The Socialist Realist Chornobyl Discourse 4. Nuclear (Non)-Representation 5. Chornobyl and Virtuality 6. Chornobyl and the Cultural Archive 7. Chornobyl Postmodern Topography 8. Chornobyl and the Crisis of Language 9. Postmodernism: The Synchronization of History 10. Ukrainian Postmodernism: The Historical Framework 11. A Farewell to the Classic 12. The "Ex-Centricity" of the Great Character 13. Postmodernism and the "Cultural Organic" 14. Postmodernism as Ironic Behavior 15. Bu-Ba-Bu: A New Literary Formation 16. The Carnivalesque Postmodern 17. Yuri Andrukhovych's Carnival: A History of Self-Destruction 18. After the Carnival: Bu-Ba-Bu Postmortem 19. Narrative Apocalypse: Taras Prokhasko's Topographic Writing 20. The Virtual Apocalypse: The Post-Verbal Writing of Yurko Izdryk 21. The Grotesques of the Kyiv Underground: Dibrova-Zholdak-Poderviansky 22. Feminist Postmodernism: Oksana Zabuzhko 23. Postmodern Europe: Revision, Nostalgia, and Revenge 24. The Chornobyl Apocalypse of Yevhen Pashkovsky 25. The Postmodern Homelessness of Serhiy Zhadan 26. Volodymyr Tsybulko's Pop-Postmodernism 27. The (De)KONstructed Postmodernism of Yuriy Tarnawsky 28. PS. A Comment from the "End of Postmodernism" 29. Types of Postmodernism

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