Shkandrij demonstrates that Ukrainian literature has been marginalised in the interests of converting readers to imperial and assimilatory designs by emphasising narratives of reunion and brotherhood and denying alterity.
Literature and the Discourse of Empire from Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/12/2001
Drawing on colonial discourse and postcolonial theory to reinterpret key writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Myroslav Shkandrij shows how the need to legitimize expansion gave rise to ideas of Russian political and cultural hegemony and influenced Russian attitudes toward Ukraine. These notions were then challenged and subverted in a counter-discourse that shaped Ukrainian literature. Concepts of civilisational superiority and redemptive assimilation, widely held among nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals, helped to form stereotypes of Ukraine and Ukrainians in travel writings, textbooks, and historical fiction, stereotypes that have been reactivated in ensuing decades. Both Russian and Ukrainian writers have explored the politics of identity in the post-Soviet period, but while the canon of Russian imperial thought is well known, the tradition of resistance - which in the Ukrainian case can be traced as far back as the meeting of the Russian and Ukrainian polities and cultures of the seventeenth century - is much less familiar.
Shkandrij demonstrates that Ukrainian literature has been marginalised in the interests of converting readers to imperial and assimilatory designs by emphasising narratives of reunion and brotherhood and denying alterity.
Shkandrij demonstrates that Ukrainian literature has been marginalised in the interests of converting readers to imperial and assimilatory designs by emphasising narratives of reunion and brotherhood and denying alterity.
- ISBN:
- 9780773522343
- 9780773522343
- Category:
- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 01-12-2001
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Country of origin:
- Canada
- Pages:
- 368
- Dimensions (mm):
- 228x154x865mm
- Weight:
- 0.7kg
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Literature: history & criticism
Colonialism & imperialism
Literary studies: from c 1900 -
National liberation & independence
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
European history
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
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