Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian

The author investigates the interplay between literature, politics, market and identity in contemporary Ukraine (19912018). 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.

What is the role and position of Russophone/Russian culture in Ukraine today? How can the dynamics of Ukrainian culture lend insight into the possibility of a global Russian culture, or multiple Russian cultures, in the contemporary world? The author responds to these questions by investi-gating the interplay between literature, politics, market, and identity in the contemporary Ukrainian cultural process (19912018). This book explores the contested encounters of the Russian language and culture with other languages, cultures, and traditions in the post-Soviet space, highlighting pressing contemporary issues related toand affected bypolitical and social developments.

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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.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration Introduction: From (Global) Russian to Ukrainian Cultureand 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 PoliticsDisplaced Hybridity/ies (19912013) 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 CultureAfter Revolution of Hybridity (20142018) 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