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Nikolai Gogol: Ukrainian Writer in the Empire : A Study in Identity / Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (XI, 193 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783111372358
  • 9783111373607
  • 9783111373263
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.73/3 23/eng/20240726
LOC classification:
  • PG3335.Z8 I46 2024
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Gogol’s Ukrainian Debut and Appropriation by Russians -- 3 Constructing a ‘Russian’ Gogol (False Narratives 1) -- 4 Dueling Discourses: National vs. Supranational -- 5 The Myth of a ‘Russified’ Taras Bulba (False Narratives 2) -- 6 Coda: Gogol, Ukrainian Writer in the Empire -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: Russian culture and Slavic Studies maintain that Gogol is an incontrovertible Russian writer. To call him a Ukrainian is to encounter deep skepticism. Oddly, the grounds of his "Russianness" are rarely made explicit and even less often examined critically. This book addresses these problems. It shows, for example, how scholars assume that language and theme make Gogol Russian. How others call him Russian by denying Ukrainians status as a separate nation, while still others avoid explanations altogether by representing him as a typical Russian in a national culture and literature. This book challenges such paradigms, situating Gogol within an "imperial culture," where Russian and Ukrainian elites shared intellectual pursuits but clashed over rival national projects. It reveals Gogol as a Ukrainian Russian-language Imperial Writer, a person who embraced an emergent Ukrainian movement while remaining a loyal imperial subject. This book will appeal to Russianists and Ukrainianists, anyone interested in questions of identity, cultural politics, and colonialism. It provides ample context and background, making it suitable for students. Readers who enjoy Taras Bulba will be drawn to the chapter that dispels the myth of its "Russianness."

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Gogol’s Ukrainian Debut and Appropriation by Russians -- 3 Constructing a ‘Russian’ Gogol (False Narratives 1) -- 4 Dueling Discourses: National vs. Supranational -- 5 The Myth of a ‘Russified’ Taras Bulba (False Narratives 2) -- 6 Coda: Gogol, Ukrainian Writer in the Empire -- Works Cited -- Index

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Russian culture and Slavic Studies maintain that Gogol is an incontrovertible Russian writer. To call him a Ukrainian is to encounter deep skepticism. Oddly, the grounds of his "Russianness" are rarely made explicit and even less often examined critically. This book addresses these problems. It shows, for example, how scholars assume that language and theme make Gogol Russian. How others call him Russian by denying Ukrainians status as a separate nation, while still others avoid explanations altogether by representing him as a typical Russian in a national culture and literature. This book challenges such paradigms, situating Gogol within an "imperial culture," where Russian and Ukrainian elites shared intellectual pursuits but clashed over rival national projects. It reveals Gogol as a Ukrainian Russian-language Imperial Writer, a person who embraced an emergent Ukrainian movement while remaining a loyal imperial subject. This book will appeal to Russianists and Ukrainianists, anyone interested in questions of identity, cultural politics, and colonialism. It provides ample context and background, making it suitable for students. Readers who enjoy Taras Bulba will be drawn to the chapter that dispels the myth of its "Russianness."

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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