Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe

Abstract

Introduction: Mapping of Ukraine. I. Mapping the Nation: History, Politics, and Religion 1. Western Dimension of the Making of Modern Ukraine, Roman Szporluk 2. Cultural Faultlines and Political Cleavages, : Legacy of History in Contemporary Ukraine Mykola Riabchuk 3. Ukraine's Road to Europe: A Still Controversial Issue, Giulia Lami 4. Finis Europae: Contemporary Ukraine's Conflicting Inheritances from the Humanistic West and the Byzantine East (A Triptych), Oxana Pachlovska 5. Status of Religion in Ukraine and European Standards, Andrew Sorokowski 6. Missionaries and Pluralism: How the Law Changed the Religious Landscape in Ukraine, Catherine Wanner 7. Future of Ukraine, If Values Determine the Course: What Opinion Polls Disclose About Public Attitudes on Political and Economic Issues, Elehie Skoczylas 8. Accountability for Human Rights Violations by Soviet and Other Communist Regimes and the Position of the Council of Europe Myroslava Antonovych 9. Collective Memory as a Device for Constructing a New Gender Myth, Marian Rubchak II. Reflecting Identities: Literary Paradigm 10. Mirrors, Windows, and Maps: Topology of Cultural Identification in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature, Maria Zubrytska 11. Cultural Perceptions, Mirror Images, and Western Identification in New Ukrainian Drama, Larissa M.L. Zaleska Onyshkevych 12. Ukrainian Avant-Garde Poetry Today: Bu-Ba-Bu and Others, Michael M. Naydan 13. Nativists vs. Westernizers : Problems of Cultural in Ukrainian Literature of the 1990s, Ola Hnatiuk 14. Back to the Golden Age: Discourse of Nostalgia in Galicia in the 1990s, Lydia Stefanowska 15. Symbols of Transformation: Reflection of Ukraine's Identity Shift in Four Ukrainian Novels of the 1990s Marko R. Stech 16. Choosing a Europe: Andrukhovych, Izdryk, and the New Ukrainian Literature, Marko Pavlyshyn 17. Images of Bonding and Social Decay in Contemporary Ukrainian Prose: Reading Serhii Zhadan and Anatolii Dnistrovyi, Maxim Tarnawsky 18. Women's Literary Discourse and National in Post-Soviet Ukraine, Maria G. Rewakowicz III. Manifesting Culture: Language, Media, and the Arts 19. European Dimension Within the Current Controversy over the Ukrainian Language Standard, Serhii Vakulenko 20. Colonial Linguistic Reflexes in a Post-Soviet Setting: Galician Variant of the Ukrainian Language and Anti-Ukrainian Discourse in Contemporary Internet Sources Michael Moser 21. Criticism and Confidence: Reshaping of the Linguistic Marketplace in Post-Soviet Ukraine, Laada Bilaniuk 22. Linguistic Strategies of Imperial Appropriation: Why Ukraine Is Absent from World Film History, Yuri Shevchuk 23. Ukraine's Changing Communicative Space: Destination Europe or the Soviet Past?, Marta Dyczok 24. Envisioning Europe: Ruslana's Rhetoric of Identity, Marko Pavlyshyn 25. Contemporary Ukrainian Art and the Twentieth Century Avant-Garde, Myroslav Shkandrij 26. The Past Is My Beginning...: On the Future of Music in Ukraine Virko Baley