Drawing on colonial discourse and postcolonial theory to reinterpret key writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Myroslav Shkandrij shows how the need to legitimize expansion gave rise to ideas of Russian political and cultural hegemony and influenced Russian attitudes toward Ukraine. These notions were then challenged and subverted in a counter-discourse that shaped Ukrainian literature. Concepts of civilisational superiority and redemptive assimilation, widely held among nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals, helped to form stereotypes of Ukraine and Ukrainians in travel writings, textbooks, and historical fiction, stereotypes that have been reactivated in ensuing decades. Both Russian and Ukrainian writers have explored the politics of identity in the post-Soviet period, but while the canon of Russian imperial thought is well known, the tradition of resistance - which in the Ukrainian case can be traced as far back as the meeting of the Russian and Ukrainian polities and cultures of the seventeenth century - is much less familiar. Shkandrij demonstrates that Ukrainian literature has been marginalised in the interests of converting readers to imperial and assimilatory designs by emphasising narratives of reunion and brotherhood and denying alterity.
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"A major contribution to Slavic studies, as well as to postcolonial studies. It is truly pioneering in its scope and attempt at bringing the scholarly discourses of these two disciplines into dialogic contact. Shkandrij's scholarly approach combines a nuanced and sensitive introduction of several key theoretical concepts with careful close readings of the original texts." Vitaly Chernetsky, Slavic Languages, Columbia University
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