Post-Chornobyl Library

Tamara Hundorova is Chair of the Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Associate of Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. She is the author of Transit Culture: Symptoms of Postcolonial Trauma (2013), Kitsch and Literature: Travesties (2008), The Emerging Word: The Discourse of Early Ukrainian Modernism (1997, 2013), Femina melancholica: Sex and Culture in the Gender Utopia of Olha Kobylianska (2002). She taught at Toronto University, Harvard Summer School, Greifswald Ukrainicum, Ukrainian Free University. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, a Petro Jacyk Distinguished Fellowship (Harvard University), a visiting professorship at the SURC (Hokkaido University) and a fellowship at Monash University (Australia).Dr. Sergiy Yakovenko teaches in the Department of English at MacEwan University. He is the author of Romantics, Aesthetes, Nietzscheans: Ukrainian and Polish Literary Criticism of the Early Modernist Period (2006) and Poetics and Anthropology: Essays on Ukrainian and Polish Prose on the 20th Century (2007), both books in Ukrainian.

• Table of ContentsPreface1. Nuclear Discourse, or Literature after Chornobyl2. Nuclear Apocalypse and Postmodernism3. The Socialist Realist Chornobyl Discourse4. Nuclear (Non)-Representation5. Chornobyl and Virtuality6. Chornobyl and the Cultural Archive7. Chornobyl Postmodern Topography8. Chornobyl and the Crisis of Language9. Postmodernism: The Synchronization of History10. Ukrainian Postmodernism: The Historical Framework11. A Farewell to the Classic12. The “Ex-Centricity” of the Great Character13. Postmodernism and the “Cultural Organic”14. Postmodernism as Ironic Behavior15. Bu-Ba-Bu: A New Literary Formation16. The Carnivalesque Postmodern17. Yuri Andrukhovych’s Carnival: A History of Self-Destruction18. After the Carnival: Bu-Ba-Bu Postmortem19. Narrative Apocalypse: Taras Prokhasko’s Topographic Writing20. The Virtual Apocalypse: The Post-Verbal Writing of Yurko Izdryk21. The Grotesques of the Kyiv Underground: Dibrova—Zholdak—Poderviansky22. Feminist Postmodernism: Oksana Zabuzhko23. Postmodern Europe: Revision, Nostalgia, and Revenge24. The Chornobyl Apocalypse of Yevhen Pashkovsky25. The Postmodern Homelessness of Serhiy Zhadan26. Volodymyr Tsybulko’s Pop-Postmodernism27. The (De)KONstructed Postmodernism of Yuriy Tarnawsky28. PS. A Comment from the “End of Postmodernism”29. Types of Postmodernism

“[A]n exciting addition to the growing field of anglophone studies of Ukrainian literature. Hundorova masterfully traces the etiologies and manifestations of postmodern literary and cultural structures in Ukraine, placing the explosion of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant as the genesis of the postmodern cultural and literary movement in Ukraine. … Ultimately, Hundorova's The Post-Chornobyl Library is an important contribution not only to the field of Ukrainian literary criticism but also to the expansive library of studies of postmodernism. This work will certainly prove useful to people in either field of study, and its new translation into English allows anglophone critics access to Hundorova's comprehensive, insightful, and theoretically sophisticated arguments on Ukrainian literature, postmodernism, and their interaction.”—Brett Donohoe, Harvard University, H-Ukraine