Russia and Ukraine: Literature and the Discourse of Empire from Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times

by Myroslav Shkandrij

Concepts of civilizational 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773522344
• ISBN13: 9780773522343
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Carleton University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"