1st Edition
Where Currents Meet Frontiers of Memory in Post-Soviet Fiction of Kharkiv, Ukraine
By Tanya Zaharchenko
Copyright 2016
226 Pages
by
Central European University Press
226 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Where Currents Meet , Tanya Zaharchenko's path-breaking study of literature and cultural memory, moves decisively beyond the simplistic view of a post-Soviet Ukraine divided between east and west. It positions the Ukrainian and Russian components of cultural experience in the country's east as elements of a complex continuum. Combining insights from memory studies and border studies, Zaharchenko... Read more
Notes on Format, Foreword, Introduction, Kharkiv's Doubletake Generation and the Shimmer of Frontiers, Time and Space, Memory and Literature, The Shimmer of Frontiers, Where Currents Meet, Chapter One Frontiers of Identity Fluid Identities, Narratives at War Sloboda: Roots of Fluidity, Chapter Two Frontiers of Emptiness, The Last Barricade, A Story in Old Drawings, Of Monsters and Men, Memory and Emptiness, The Nonmissing Variable, Chapter Three Frontiers of Life (and Death), The Charon Hypothesis, The Mourning Writer, Chapter Four Frontiers of Trauma, Expressing the Unspeakable, Surviving the Unspeakable, Traversing the Unspeakable, Writing about the Unspeakable, Chapter Five Frontiers of iIn) Sanity, Monologues of Madness, Death, Movement, Place Conclusion, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Tanya Zaharchenko (MSc Oxon 2007, PhD Cantab 2014) was the 2015 Einstein Fellow in Germany, and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Oslo.
