Spring 2024 Ukrainian GU4054 section 001

CREATING ID-CONTEMP UKRN CULTR

CREATING ID-CONTEMP UKRN

Call Number 10714
Day & Time
Location
TR 1:10pm-2:25pm
707 Hamilton Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Mark Andryczyk
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description This course presents and examines post-Soviet Ukrainian literature. Students will learn about the significant achievements, names, events, scandals and polemics in contemporary Ukrainian literature and will see how they have contributed to Ukraine’s post-Soviet identity. Students will examine how Ukrainian literature became an important site for experimentation with language, for providing feminist perspectives, for engaging previously-banned taboos and for deconstructing Soviet and Ukrainian national myths. Among the writers to be focused on in the course are Serhiy Zhadan, Yuri Andrukhovych, Oksana Zabuzhko and Taras Prokhasko. Centered on the most important successes in literature, the course will also explore key developments in music and visual art of this period. Special focus will be given to how the 2013/2014 Euromaidan revolution and war are treated in today’s literature. By also studying Ukrainian literature with regards to its relationship with Ukraine’s changing political life, students will obtain a good understanding of the dynamics of today’s Ukraine and the development of Ukrainians as a nation in the 21st century. The course will be complemented by audio and video presentations. Entirely in English with a parallel reading list for those who read Ukrainian.
Web Site Vergil
Department Slavic Languages
Enrollment 5 students (25 max) as of 9:14PM Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Subject Ukrainian
Number GU4054
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Section key 20241UKRN4054W001