Świat po Wydarzeniu albo dzieło sztuki w dobie apokalipsy masowej
The World after the Event, or the Work of Art in the Age of Mass Apocalypse

Summary/Abstract: Tamara Hundorova, author of a methodologically excellent analysis of post-modern Ukrainian literature entitled The Post-Chernobyl Library: Ukrainian Literary Postmodernism, which takes as its starting point the meaning of Chernobyl as a word-symbol for complete disaster, sees 1986 as the moment when a new postmodern consciousness and literature was born in Ukraine. She also shows that Chernobyl has come to occupy an “unspeakable” place in Ukrainian culture – a phenomenon similar to the Holocaust. In discourses within the humanities today, Chernobyl and the accident at the nuclear power plant are associated with the emergence of a new consciousness and a new Ukrainian literature: “Chernobyl literature”. The Chernobyl corpus includes apocalyptic works of both high and low culture.

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