Ukrainian Literature - A Wartime Guide for Anglophone Readers

An introduction for general readers and students to Ukrainian literature in English translation, using the responses of Ukrainian poets and prose writers to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the preceding eight-year war as its starting point.

List of contents

1. Foreword; 2. 2023: Invasion and defiance; 3. 1992: Independence established, enjoyed and explored; 4. 1965: dissenting from the party-state; 5. 1933: death and life with totalitarianism; 6. 1918: the national revolution; 7. 1876: empires endured; 8. 1847: from people to nation; 9. 1798: the new Ukrainian literature begins; 10. 1610: early modern multifariousness; 11. 1185: the presence of the medieval past; 12. Afterword; List of abbreviations; References.

Product details

• Authors: Marko Pavlyshyn, Marko (Monash University) Pavlyshyn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.05.2025
• EAN: 9781009559072
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0955907-2
• No. of pages: 90
• Series: Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; military history, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, War & combat fiction, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Ukrainian, War, combat and military adventure fiction, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Literary studies: postcolonial literature