Where Currents Meet. Frontiers in Post-Soviet Fiction of Kharkiv, Ukraine
Where Currents Meet. Frontiers in Post-Soviet Fiction of Kharkiv, Ukraine

Author(s): Tanya Zaharchenko
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Russian Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Nationalism Studies
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: Russian fiction; Ukraine fiction; History and criticism; Memory in literature; Ukraine authors; Russian authors
Summary/Abstract: Where Currents Meet, Tanya Zaharchenko’s path-breaking study of literature and cultural memory, moves decisively beyond the simplistic view of a post-Soviet Ukraine divided between east and west. It positions the Ukrainian and Russian components of cultural experience in the country’s east as elements of a complex continuum. Combining insights from memory studies and border studies, Zaharchenko analyzes a generation of younger writers in the city of Kharkiv—a “doubletake generation” that came of age at the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse and now revisits this experience through fiction. In the works of Serhiy Zhadan, Andreĭ Krasniashchikh, Yuri Tsaplin, Oleh Kotsarev, and others the author reveals how borderlands and frontiers, both geographical and conceptual, acquire zonal qualities of their own as these writers navigate the historical legacy they have inherited.

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