TY - BOOK AU - Wallo,Oleksandra TI - Ukrainian Women Writers and the National Imaginary: From the Collapse of the USSR to the Euromaidan SN - 9781487506001 U1 - 809.93352042 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Toronto PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Nationalism and literature KW - Ukraine KW - History KW - Ukrainian prose literature KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Women and literature KW - Women in literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union) KW - bisacsh KW - Euromaidan KW - Nina Bichuia KW - Soviet Union KW - USSR KW - Ukrainian women’s writing KW - national imaginary KW - national narrative KW - postcolonial nation KW - women writers KW - women’s prose N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Note on Transliteration --; Introduction: Women, Literature, and the National Imaginary in (Post)colonial Ukraine --; 1. On the Invisibility of Ukrainian Women’s Writing in the Soviet Empire --; 2. How Can a Ukrainian Woman Write? --; 3. Voicing the Self: The First Ukrainian Bestseller by a Woman Writer --; 4. Rewriting the Nation: National Narratives by Maria Matios and Yevhenia Kononenko --; 5. Excavating the (Gendered) Nation: Oksana Zabuzhko’s Museum Novel --; 6. New National Chronicles: Women (Writers) on the Euromaidan --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian literary world has not only experienced a true blossoming of women’s prose, but has also witnessed a number of female authors assume the roles of literary trendsetters and authoritative critics of their culture. In this first in-depth study of how Ukrainian women’s prose writing was able to re-emerge so powerfully after being marginalized in the Soviet era, Oleksandra Wallo examines the writings and literary careers of leading contemporary Ukrainian women authors, such as Oksana Zabuzhko, Ievheniia Kononenko, and Maria Matios. Her study shows how these women reshaped literary culture with their contributions to the development of the Ukrainian national imaginary in the wake of the Soviet state’s disintegration. The interjection of women’s voices and perspectives into the narratives about the nation has often permitted these writers to highlight the diversity of the national picture and the complexity of the national story. Utilizing insights from postcolonial and nationalism studies, Wallo’s book theorizes the interdependence between the national imaginary and narrative plots, and scrutinizes how prominent Ukrainian women authors experimented with literary form in order to rewrite the story of women and nationhood UR - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487533090 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487533090 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487533090/original ER -