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Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn, eds. Alessandro Achilli, Serhy Yekelchyk, and Dmytro Yesypenko
No full textReviews on Alessandro Achilli, Serhy Yekelchyk, and Dmytro Yesypenko, eds. Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2020. 812 pp
Beyond War: Russia, Ukraine and the State of the Field
Full text linkThe dramatic developments devastating Ukraine since February 2022 represent a true watershed not only for social and political dynamics in both countries, but also for Russian and Ukrainian studies. In this article, the authors aim to contribute to a preliminary review of the most relevant issues touched upon by the academic debate emerging in the months following the start of the war of aggression waged by the Russian Federation in Ukraine
Vasyl' Stus e Marina Cvetaeva: un dialogo poetico tra generazioni, lingue e invisibili confini
No full textPoeti d'Ucraina
No full textComporre un’antologia di poesia ucraina è un compito tanto arduo quanto, oseremmo dire, «naturale». Nella cultura ucraina moderna, dalla metà dell’Ottocento a oggi, la poesia ha sempre giocato un ruolo simbolico molto forte e continua a essere vissuta come qualcosa di significativo, come uno strumento in grado di dare una voce agli ucraini. Questa è un’eredità del passato, di quando tra Ottocento e Novecento la poesia ucraina era un laboratorio di identità nazionale in periodi di negazione ufficiale dell’autonomia culturale e politica del paese. Un’eredità rivista alla luce delle possibilità e delle esigenze di un oggi in cui l’Ucraina si trova di nuovo a dover lottare per la propria sopravvivenza. La poesia è dunque un’ottima chiave per cercare di entrare nel mondo della cultura ucraina in tutta la sua complessità.Il volume si divide in sei sezioni: si comincia con Vasyl’ Stus, con il quale la poesia ucraina rinasce dopo i decenni bui dello stalinismo, per poi passare a qualche assaggio della poesia alternativa dell’età tardo-sovietica, alla complessa cultura degli anni Ottanta, alla lunga ricostruzione dei due decenni a cavallo del secolo e del millennio, fino alla svolta del 2014, per concludere con un accenno alla produzione poetica ispirata dall’allargamento della guerra a tutto il paese dopo il 24 febbraio 2022.Abbiamo scelto di coniugare liriche che conducessero un dialogo intertestuale tra loro con l’idea di presentare lo sviluppo della storia della poesia ucraina contemporanea in tutta la sua varietà. Le immancabili istantanee sulla realtà ucraina dagli anni Ottanta a oggi si alternano così ad alcuni assaggi, anche molto diversi tra loro, di come i poeti ucraini hanno immaginato e visto l’Italia negli anni, nonché a sguardi alla cultura di tutto il mondo. Note tragiche o malinconiche lasciano il posto a riflessioni o bozzetti ironici o dissacranti, mentre nelle ultime liriche, quelle scritte proprio in questi mesi, domina lo sgomento. L’arte è sempre anche documento di un’epoca, seppure non si limiti certo a questo. Ma, in conclusione, siamo certi che il carattere occasionale di alcune delle liriche che qui presentiamo non sia di nocumento al loro valore letterario. L’esempio della poesia ucraina contemporanea può al contrario aiutarci a non sottovalutare l’aspetto profondamente umano, concreto, sanguigno della scrittura poetica, che è tutt’altro che un semplice divertissement avulso dalla realtà
Da marginali a classici di oggi: le 'letterature minori' dell'area slava orientale nel panorama editoriale italiano
No full textIn this contribution we analyze how minor literatures from the Eastern Slavic area manage to enter the Italian cultural space by also using "major languages". In the case of Ukrainian and Belarusian literatures, this tendency may be seen as being in contrast with the dynamics of the respective national publishing industries, in which Russian-language authors are not very successful or may not even be considered as belonging to the national canon. On the basis of these premises, we will focus on the cases of Andrei Kurkov and Aleksei Nikiting for Ukraine, and on Sviatlana Aleksievich and Dmitri Strotsev for Belarus. In conclusion, we will touch upon broader issues of the western publishing industry in the light of the relationship between Italian cultural institutions and their Ukrainian and Belarusian counterparts
Vorwort der Herausgeber:innen
Full text linkThe study of the construction and deconstruction of identities, at both the individual and collective levels, is becoming increasingly important in the context of cultural change in modern post-migrant societies. The ways in which people attempt to perceive and negotiate their individualised forms of existence in intercultural contexts, or to make sense of their experiences of themselves and others, intensify the social debate on the understanding of integration, inclusion and social cohesion.
This volume examines identity as a dynamic and open process that encompasses cultural, social, linguistic and biographical dimensions of life. Contributors explore how identity can evolve from a concept strongly shaped by social and religious norms to a fluid and contextual construct. Particular attention is paid to the construction of identity within German-speaking, East Slavic and Arabic-speaking communities. The volume is aimed primarily at researchers and students in the fields of linguistics and literary studies who are concerned with the manifestation of identity in texts and other media. It is also suitable for all readers who wish to explore the many facets of identity in language and literature.Die Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen nach der Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion von Identitäten, auf individueller sowie kollektiver Ebene, gewinnt im Zuge des kulturellen Wandels moderner postmigrantischer Gesellschaften zunehmend an Bedeutung. Die Art und Weise, wie Menschen ihre individualisierten Existenzformen in interkulturellen Kontexten wahrzunehmen und auszuhandeln versuchen oder ihre Erfahrungen von sich selbst und anderen begreifbar machen, verstärkt die gesellschaftliche Debatte rund um das Verständnis von Integration, Inklusion und sozialem Zusammenhalt.
Der Sammelband untersucht Identität als dynamischen und offenen Prozess, der kulturelle, soziale, sprachliche und biografische Dimensionen des Lebens umfasst. Die Beiträge beleuchten, wie sich Identität von einem stark durch soziale und religiöse Normen geprägten Konzept hin zu einem fluiden und kontextabhängigen Konstrukt entwickeln kann. Besonderes Augenmerk wird auf die Identitätskonstruktion in deutschsprachigen, ostslawischen und arabischsprachigen Gemeinschaften gelegt. Der Band richtet sich in erster Linie an Forschende und Studierende im Bereich der Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, die sich mit dem Thema der Identitätsausprägungen in Texten und anderen Medien auseinandersetzen. Er ist aber ebenso für alle Leser:innen geeignet, welche die vielfältigen Facetten der Identität in Sprache und Literatur entdecken möchten
Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the antipodes. Essays in honor of Marko Pavlyshyn
No full textThis bilingual collection of essays celebrates Marko Pavlyshyn's outstanding contribution to the study of modern and contemporary Ukrainian literature and culture. With its many methodological approaches and the variety of periods, authors and texts that it analyzes, the book reflects and builds on Pavlyshyn's willingness to modernize our understanding of Ukrainian literature as an instrument of communication between authors, readers and the nation from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Hopefully these essays will inspire readers and scholars to continue their journey through Ukrainian culture, in a context profoundly marked by the role of literary texts as agents of nation building and social evolution
A Note on the Term Huwiyya as ‘Identity’ in Arabic
No full textOf all the neologisms produced within the Greek-Arabic translation movement of the Abbasid era, the abstract huwiyya is arguably one of the most successful. This term is notable for its dynamism, as evidenced by its dissemination throughout the Mediterranean, encompassing a multitude of languages and cultures, including Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Latin,14 Turkish, and Persian. The history and genesis of huwiyya show the history of a Hellenized Mediterranean and serve as an exemplar of an important aspect of the common background of pan-Mediterranean interculturality as well as of its epistemic community.15 All this shows that ‘identity’ in Modern Arabic is a concept whose roots go back to Greek philosophical thought
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