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Ukrainian Erotomaniac Fictions: First Postindependence Wave book cover

1st Edition

Ukrainian Erotomaniac Fictions: First Postindependence Wave

By Maryna Romanets Copyright 2019
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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Ukrainian Erotomaniac Fictions explores the aggressive sexualization of the Ukrainian cultural mainstream after the collapse of the USSR as a counter-reaction to the Soviet state's totalitarian, repressive politics of the body. While the book's introduction includes concise sections on such pornified cultural forms as advertising, mass media, visual art, and film, its major focus is on textual... Read more

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Acknowledgements



Note on Translation and Transliteration





1 Introduction to Erotomaniac Fictions



2 Nationalist-Masochist Woman, Impotent Man, and Counter-Erotics: Pol′ovi doslidzhennia z ukraïns′koho seksu [Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex]



3 A Guide to the Art of (Post-)Soviet Pleasure: Pokalchuk’s Taxonomies



4 Carnivalesque Mystifications, National Icon, and Orientalist Dreams: Zhytiie haremnoie [Life in the Harem] as Historiographic Metafiction



5 The Monstrosity of Desire and the Delights of Carnal Hell: Shevchuk’s



Neo-Baroque Angst



6 Indecent Transpositions and Displacements of the National Imaginary by the Kapranov Brothers



7 Pornographized Desecration of the Socialist Realist Canon: Poderviansky the Bricoleur



8 Postscript





Bibliography



Index

Biography

Maryna Romanets is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of Anamorphosic Texts and Reconfigured Visions: Improvised traditions in Contemporary Ukrainian and Irish Literature and co-editor of Beauty, Violence, Representation.

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