25 Years of New Ukrainian Literature. A lecture by Tamara Hundorova
Date and time:
Friday 9 March, 2018
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Ukrainian Institute London
79 Holland Park
London
W11 3SW
After the fall of the USSR in 1989, the alienation from the Soviet past was a cause of trauma not only for the older generation who grew up under the Soviet system but also for the young and children who had partial or no experience of it. While the 90s generation escaped into their ‘Inner Mongolia’, the millennials, by contrast, assert themselves via their real presence in the world. The Orange Revolution generation, in its part, is traumatised by disappointments at the Revolution’s failure. The Maidan generation is a generation affected by a rise in feelings of uncertainty and instability, severing ties between parents and children, challenging one’s sense of historical continuity.
How are trans-generational traumas represented in texts, and how does this consciousness work in and through literature?
This talk will be held in English
FREE
Speaker
Tamara Hundorova
Professor Tamara Hundorova is a Chair of the Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Institute of Literature of the NAS of Ukraine, a Dean at the Ukrainian Free University, Munich, and an Associate Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. She is the author of 10 books and numerous publications on modernism, postmodernism, feminism, postcolonial studies, and the history of Ukrainian literature. She is the editor of Ievropeiska melancholia (2008); Modernism pislia postmodernu (2008); Postkolonializm. Generatsii. Kultura (with A.Matusiak, 2014). Prof. Hundorova taught at Harvard University, Toronto University, Greifswald University, Kyiv-Mohyla University. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Harvard Ukrainian Studies, EAST/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, and Postcolonial Europe.
