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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.

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.

This article examines the issues of national identity and gender in the work of Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko. It does so through an analysis of the representations of space in the author's work: specifically, the spaces of the nation, the home, and the body. The article demonstrates how the representation of these spaces is gendered and politically coded in order to express a complex, anguished, and paradoxical relationship between national cultural identity and gendered, embodied subjectivity. In making this analysis the article draws on gender and postcolonial theory.

Woman recalls harrowing experience in Mariupol; Palestinians: More than 150 injured in Jerusalem clashes; Jerusalem on edge as violence flares at holy site; Ukrainians in anguish over destruction of their communities; Ukrainian refugees find safe haven on Estonian Ship; Pakistan's troubles mired in dynasty politics GUESTS: Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, Oksana Zabuzhko

First published in Ukraine in 1996, \"Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex\" by Oksana Zabuzhko has been translated into English by [Halyna Hryn]. The novel follows Ukrainian writer \"Oksana,\" her pursuit of something better and the uncertainty that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ms. [Zabuzhko]'s choice to write in Ukrainian also isolates her on the periphery of the Ukrainian literary scene, as most write in Russian for a larger audience. Called \"the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence,\" Ms. Zabuzhko's \"Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex\" became an international phenomenon when it shot to number one on the Ukrainian bestseller list and remained there throughout the 1990s. The novel is narrated in first-person streams of thought by a sharp-tongued poet with an irreverently honest voice. She is the visiting professor of Slavic studies at Harvard, and her exposure to American values and behaviors conspires with her yearning to break free from Ukrainian conventions.

A group of talented actors presented the poetry that night. The beautiful and passionate Olga Shuhan, who has frequently worked with Yara in the past, read poems in the original Ukrainian, as did a new voice in the Yara ensemble, Xenia Piaseckyj. Richarda Abrams, who won the hearts of those who attended Yara's \"Silver Threads\" poetry event, was back with resonant readings of Ludmyla Taran's \"How Much Garbage\" and \"Blues.\" Zabryna Guevara found the perfect ironic tone of Ms. [Zabuzhko]'s \"letter From the Summer House\" about a new natural mystery of mad trees \"turned rust colored\" by \"recent acid rains.\"

Rojavin reviews Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Zabuzhko and translated by Halyna Hryn.

One of the most poignant terms was offered in 2007 by contemporary writer Oksana Zabuzhko, who declared that Ukraine was ruled by a \"khamokratiya\" (rule of boors) in her novel \"Notre Dame d'Ukraine.\" She described \"khamokratiya\" as a societal attitude based on \"the cult of your own self.\" He dismissed statistics for average Ternopil monthly salaries of $207.50 a month: \"I don't believe it.\" Nor did he believe the state figures that showed 704,000 Ukrainians earn the monthly minimum of $114 a month. \"You believe this to be honest?\" he wrote. \"Everyone is simply registered on the minimum wage and the rest is paid in envelopes.\" \"With childlike shamelessness he demonstrated to the world community our 'pornokratiya,' inviting them to our country as if to a sauna with whores,\" she said. \"I'm afraid that the hapless, Soviet 'elite' truly doesn't understand that an international summit isn't a 'mafia summit of novi Russki.'\"

WASHINGTON - The [Omelan Antonovych] and Tetiana Antonovych Foundation presented its awards for excellence in Ukrainian literature and scholarship to writer Oksana Zabuzhko and historian Lubomyr Wynar. And, at the foundation's annual awards ceremony held on November 20 at the Ukrainian Embassy here, it also received an award for its founder from the government of Ukraine. Dr. Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak, who chairs the award selection committee, presented the first of the two Antonovych awards to Ms. Zabuzhko, a widely known and respected writer in Ukraine and abroad. She was cited for the originality of her book about Lesia Ukrayinka, \"Notre Dame d'Ukraine: a Ukrainian in the Conflict of Mythologies\" (2007), which the foundation characterized as the \"culmination of her series of scholarly works on the development of the Ukrainian identity within European culture.\" Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko, who along with Ukrainian American historian Lubomyr Wynar received the Antonovych awards for excellence in Ukrainian literature and scholarship, expresses her hope that Ukrainian scholarship in Ukraine and its diaspora will merge in the near future.