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Havingexploded on the margins of Europe, Chornobyl marked the end of the Soviet Unionand tied the era of postmodernism in Western Europe with nuclear consciousness.The Post-Chornobyl Library becomes a metaphor of a new Ukrainian literature of the 1990s,which emerges out of the Chornobyl nuclear trauma.

Honorable Mention - American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) 2018-2019 Book Prize 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.

Ukraine and Europe challenges the popular perception of Ukraine as a country torn between Europe and the east. Twenty-two scholars from Europe, North America, and Australia explore the complexities of Ukraine's relationship with Europe and its role the continent's historical and cultural development.

The author analyses and discusses the five articles published in the thematic block. She remarks on the novelty of Pavlyshyn’s and Kočerha’s methodological approaches and interpretations of the kind of Orientalism or Post-Orientalism represented by the poem Khamsin and some poetic plays of Lesja Ukrajinka. Hundorova also highlights the interest of Achilli’s multifaceted analysis of Lesja Ukrajinka’s modernism, and gives a challenging evaluation of the interpretation of non-finito by O. Visyč. Among the most relevant contributions – Hundorova maintains – is Andrianova’s proposal of an ecofeminist interpretative clue to Forest Song.

The author analyses and discusses the five articles published in the thematic block. She remarks on the novelty of Pavlyshyn's and Kocerha's methodological approaches and interpretations of the kind of Orientalism or Post-Orientalism represented by the poem Khamsin and some poetic plays of Lesja Ukrajinka. Hundorova also highlights the interest of Achilli's multifaceted analysis of Lesja Ukrajinka's modernism, and gives a challenging evaluation of the interpretation of nonfinito by O. Visyc. Among the most relevant contributions–Hundorova maintains–is Andrianova's proposal of an ecofeminist interpretative clue to Forest Song. Keywords Lesja Ukrajinka; Orientalism; Khamsin; Forest Song.

What are the reasons behind, and trajectories of, the rapid cultural changes in Ukraine since 2013?This volume highlights: the role of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war in the formation of Ukrainian civil society; the forms of warfare waged by Moscow against Kyiv, including information and religious wars; Ukrainian and.

As sociocultural reflection, Ukrainian postmodernism plays the role of a topographic guide at the border of one’s own, and the other’s, intimate and social spaces: one’s own body and the outside world, biography and literary fiction. It also explores the space between two geopolitical zones: the former Soviet Union and modern Europe. Coined in the 1920s, the slogan about drawing near to the “psychological Europe” offered a new vector in Ukrainian national self-identification in opposition to the Moscovian. In the course of the twentieth century, Ukrainian modernism looked up to the ideal of cultural Europe, and the attempt to catch

The development of youth subcultures, especially in the postwar period, is a phenomenon of mass culture. Punk culture, born in Britain at the end of the 1970s, adopted something from camp and Warhol’s Pop Art, as well as from avant-garde performances and conceptual art forms. The shocking images created by punks aimed at the creation of an original costumed image—a persona. In addition, punk culture (with its differentiation between the aesthetized punk of the middle class and the coarse punk of the working class) was based on fantasy and the subversion of bourgeois values. At the same time, it

The predecessor of literary postmodernism in Ukraine is the Kyiv underground of the 1970s– 80s (Volodymyr Dibrova, Bohdan Zholdak, and Les Podervianskyi). Zholdak’s images-collages, Podervianskyi’s hybrid monsters, and Dibrova’s puppet characters-mannequins reflect—unlike the bohemian decentralization of space and the decentralization of the character in the postmodernists—the monstrosity of the Soviet masses’ mindset. The Ukrainian postmodernism of the 1990s produces two kinds of decentered bohemian subject. One of them is an externally “ex-centric” character, which does not have its own, authentic place, and therefore travels through countries and times, plays and put on masks. This is the character-Bubabist. However,

One of the main questions in Oleh Ilnytzkyj and Marko Pavlyshyn’s discussion about the essence of Ukrainian postmodernism concerns the “transplantation” of postmodernism as a product of Western civilization and its “organicity” in Ukraine.¹ However, the development of postmodernism in Ukraine was not predicated on the logic of late capitalism, as it was in the West, but on the deformation of the totalitarian mindset after communism. Hence the Ukrainian case essentially changes the very idea of postmodernism as a solely Western phenomenon; instead, postmodernism is found to have regional varieties.² At the end of the twentieth century, postmodernism fulfills the