Where Currents Meet: Frontiers of Memory in Post-Soviet Fiction of Kharkiv, Ukraine - Softcover

Zaharchenko, Tanya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9633861209 ISBN 13: 9789633861202

Publisher: Central European University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Where Currents Meet, Tanya Zaharchenko’s path-breaking study of literature and cultural memory, moves decisively beyond the simplistic view of a post-Soviet Ukraine divided between east and west. It positions the Ukrainian and Russian components of cultural experience in the country’s east as elements of a complex continuum. Combining insights from memory studies and border studies, Zaharchenko analyzes a generation of younger riters in the city of Kharkiv—a “doubletake generation” that came of age at the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse and now revisits this experience through fiction. In the works of Serhiy Zhadan, Andreĭ Krasniashchikh, Yuri Tsaplin, Oleh Kotsarev, and others the author reveals how borderlands and frontiers, both geographical and conceptual, acquire zonal qualities of their own as these writers navigate the historical legacy they have inherited.

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About the Author

Tanya Zaharchenko (MSc Oxon 2007, PhD Cantab 2014) was the 2015 Einstein Fellow in Germany, and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Oslo.

Edition details

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9633861209
• ISBN 13: 9789633861202
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 226