Ukrainian Literature - A Wartime Guide for Anglophone Readers

Ukrainian Literature: A Wartime Guide for Anglophone Readers is an introduction for general readers and students to Ukrainian literature in English translation. It takes as its starting point the responses of Ukrainian poets and prose writers to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the preceding eight-year war. Each of the Element's ten sections describes a key event in Ukrainian cultural history in its literary context, surveying related works and their authors, Ukrainian and international literary and intellectual movements, and developments in political and social life. The Element gives preeminent attention to a theme which the war has foregrounded: the enduringly fraught relationship of Ukraine and Russia. While focussing mainly on texts in Ukrainian, the Element refers to other literary cultures - Polish, Russian, Jewish and Crimean Tatar, among others - whose participants were active on the territory of today's Ukraine.

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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2025
• EAN: 9781009559065
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0955906-5
• No. of pages: 90
• Series: Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; 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