Much has already been written about Ukrainian-Russian relations in terms of Russian interests and priorities. Russia unceremoniously ennobled its history with other people's achievements and achievements, depriving Ukrainians of their past. From the Ukrainian point of view, the picture is entirely different.
Domestic literature has been the spokeswoman for the anti-colonial discourse for more than a century. From Kotlyarevsky, Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Kharkiv romantics to the era of modernism and eventually the emergence of the state, it offered various models of identity, undermining imperial claims and asserting its cultural self-sufficiency.
In this book, the authoritative literary critic Vira Aheieva analyzes the Ukrainian resistance to the empire and the struggle to preserve collective memory through the prism of the cultural process.
Vira Aheieva is a professor at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy National University. Shevchenko Prize laureate. A feminist who was one of the first in the post-Soviet era to speak about the need to revise patriarchal values.
The author of the books "Women's Space: Feminist Discourse of Ukrainian Modernism", "Poetics of Paradox: Intellectual Prose of Viktor Petrov-Domontovych", "Apology of Modernism: Outline of the 20th Century", "Roads and Middle Cross", "Pattern on a Stone. Mykola Bazhan: biography of a (non-)Soviet poet" and others.
