POLISH STUDIES ENDOWMENT COMMITTEE

BOOK TALK Ukraine’s Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991-2011

BOOK TALK Ukraine’s Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991-2011

Maria Rewakowicz, Ph.D.

October 19, 2020 at 3:30PM On line via ZOOM

In her award-winning book, Maria G. Rewakowicz examines how the dilemmas of Ukrainian identity manifest themselves in the literature of post-independence Ukraine. It asks how various identities — national, territorial, ethnolinguistic, class and gender — are reflected in literary works of the most representative contemporary authors, and how much these works contribute to the process of Ukraine’s decolonization.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Maria G. Rewakowicz, PhD (University of Toronto) teaches Ukrainian literature at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and is also affiliated with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington. She is the author of Literature, Exile, Alterity: The New York Group of Ukrainian Poets (2014) and co-editor of Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe (2009).

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