Abstract
Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn, eds. Alessandro Achilli, Serhy Yekelchyk, and Dmytro Yesypenko
Highlights
The title of this impressive volume features both “Cossacks” and “Jamaica,” alluding immediately to one of the key postcolonial texts in Ukrainian literature — the poem “Jamaica the Cossack” by Yurii Andrukhovych, written several decades ago
The poem plays with an image of kozak Mamai (Mamai the Cossack) who is usually depicted in artwork as one who rests by an oak tree with a stately bandura, refreshing spirit, and faithful horse; the poet, catapults a lyrical character from Ukraine into the Caribbean world where this Cossack is found contemplating life, pondering philosophical questions and overall enjoying local life and people: and I drink moonshine together with Dick the Pirate I tell him come to your senses, repent I tell you bastard is it really that if you’re European you don’t have to be a man why the fuck have you sold yourself for thirty rotten escudos
In the volume’s title, we have a plural form which suggests that Cossacks — more than one — are scattered and ready to observe, absorb and contemplate further
Summary
The title of this impressive volume features both “Cossacks” and “Jamaica,” alluding immediately to one of the key postcolonial texts in Ukrainian literature — the poem “Jamaica the Cossack” by Yurii Andrukhovych, written several decades ago.
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