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CONTEMPORARY UKRAINE
ON THE CULTURAL MAP OF EUROPE (2009)
Larissa Z. Onyshkevych and Maria G. Rewakowicz, Editors
Introduction: "The Mapping of Ukraine"
I. MAPPING THE NATION: HISTORY, POLITICS, RELIGION, AND GENDER
II. REFLECTING IDENTITIES: THE LITERARY PARADIGM
III. MANIFESTING CULTURE LANGUAGE, MEDIA, AND THE ARTS
IV. HISTORICAL MAPS of UKRAINE
In this book there are
essays by 26 scholars, specialists in their respective fields,
from 7 countries (Canada, U.S., Australia, Austria, Italy, Poland, and Ukraine).
Table of Contents
CONTEMPORARY UKRAINE ON THE CULTURAL MAP OF EUROPE
Larissa Z. Onyshkevych and Maria G. Rewakowicz, Editors
Introduction: "Mapping Ukraine":
by L. Onyshkevych and M. Rewakowicz
I. MAPPING THE NATION: HISTORY, POLITICS, RELIGION, AND GENDER
"The Western Dimension of the Making of Modern Ukraine" - Roman Szporluk (Harvard)
"Cultural Faultlines and Political Cleavages " - Mykola Riabchuk (Independent Scholar)
"Ukraine’s Road to Europe: A Still Controversial Issue" - Giulia Lami (U. of Milan)
“Finis Europae: Contemporary Ukraine's Conflicting Inheritance of the Humanist “West” and the Byzantine 'East'" Oxana Pachlovska ( La Sapienza University of Rome)
"The Status of Religion in Ukraine and European Standards "
Andrew Sorokowski (US State Dept.)
"Missionaries and Pluralism: How the Law Changed the Religious Landscape inUkraine"
Catherine Wanner (Penn State U.)
"The Future of Ukraine if Values Determine the Course:
What Opinion Polls Disclose about Public Attitudes on Socio-Political & Economic Issues" -- Elehie Skoczylas (Independent Political Analyst)
"Accountability for Human Rights Violations by Soviet and Communist Regimes and the Position of the Council of Europe"- Myroslava Antonovych (National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”)
"Collective Memory as a Device for Constructing a New Gender Myth" Marian Rubchak (Valparaiso U.)
II. REFLECTING IDENTITIES: THE LITERARY PARADIGM
"Mirrors, Windows and Maps: The Typology of Cultural Identification in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature" - Maria Zubrytska (Lviv Nat'I. Franko U.)
"Cultural Perceptions, Mirror Images, and Western Identification in New Ukrainian Drama "
Larissa M.L.Z. Onyshkevych (Shevchenko Scientific Society)
"Ukrainian Avant-Garde Poetry Today: BU-BA-BU and Others" - Michael M. Naydan (Penn State U.)
"Nativists vs. Westernizers: Problems of Cultural Identity in Ukrainian Literature of the 1990s"
Ola Hnatiuk (Warsaw U.)
"Back to the Golden Age: The Discourse of Nostalgia in Galicia in the 1990s"
Lydia Stefanowska (University of Warsaw)
"Symbols of Transformation: The Ukrainian Prose of the 1990s"
Marko R. Stech (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies)
"Choosing a Europe: Andrukhovych, Izdryk, and the New Ukrainian Literature "
Marko Pavlyshyn (Monash U.)
"Images of Bonding and Social Decay in Contemporary Ukrainian Prose:
Reading Serhii Zhadan and Anatolii Dnistrovyi "-Maxim Tarnawsky (U. of Toronto)
"Women’s Literary Discourse and National Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine"
Maria G. Rewakowicz (U. of Washington)
III. MANIFESTING CULTURE LANGUAGE, MEDIA, AND THE ARTS
"The European Dimension Within the Current Controversy over Ukrainian Language Standard " - Serhii Vakulenko (Kharkiv National Pedagogical U.)
"Galicia and Galician Ukrainian in the Ukrainian Post-1991-Discourse"-
Michael Moser ( U. of Vienna)
"Criticism, and Confidence: Reshaping of the Linguistic Marketplace in Post-Soviet Ukraine"- Laada Bilaniuk (U.of Washington)
"Linguistic Strategies of Imperial Appropriation: Why Ukrainian Film Is Absent from World Film History"
Yuri Shevchuk (Columbia U.)
"Has Ukraine’s Media Taken the Country into a European Public Sphere? " Marta Dyczok (U. of Western Ontario)
"Envisioning Europe: Ruslana’s Rhetoric of Identity" -Marko Pavlyshyn (Monash U.)
"Contemporary Ukrainian Art and the Twentieth Century Avant-Garde"- Myroslav Shkandrij (U. of Manitoba)
"The Past Is My Beginning: On The Recent Music Scene in Ukraine" - Virko Baley (University of Nevada).