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This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The main themes in the book are postcolonial traumas in relation to past empires and old historiographical narratives; post-totalitarian consciousness, which is characterized by sociocultural ruptures, postcolonial resentment, and intergenerational crises; and post-memory as a means of overcoming historical and familial traumas. Against the backdrop of the Chornobyl catastrophe, the book examines the meeting of different generations and views the clown Verka Serduchka as a mediator between the transition from the Soviet to the post-Soviet world. The book focuses on three significant Ukrainian novels written between the two Maidans: The Museum of Abandoned Secrets by Oksana Zabuzhko (2009), Voroshilovgrad by Serhiy Zhadan (2010), and Notes of a Ukrainian Madman by Lina Kostenko (2010).
Contents
Preface
POSTCOLONIAL TRANSIT
Maidan: Revolution and Performance
Maidan as an Intellectual Challenge
Sociocultural Codes of the Maidan
Carnival and Revolution
Performance as Socialization
Maidan as a Cornucopia of Possibilities
"Internal Colonization" and Re-colonization
"Internal" and "External" Colonization
"Internal Orientalism"
The Symbolic Place of the Author: Who Is Writing?
POSTCOLONIAL RESSENTIMENT
Ressentiment: Resentment and Colonial Resistance
Eastern European (Res)sentiment: Biography and Geography
The Ideal Geography
Europe as the "East-Central Part of the Body"
Galicia: a Collection of "Alternative History"
The Ideal Autobiography
Looking from the Center and the Periphery
