{"product_id":"russia-and-ukraine-literature-and-the-discourse-of-empire-from-napoleonic-to-postcolonial-times-9780773522343","title":"Russia and Ukraine: Literature and the Discourse of Empire from Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing on colonial discourse and postcolonial theory to reinterpret key writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Myroslav Shkandrij shows how the need to legitimize expansion gave rise to ideas of Russian political and cultural hegemony and influenced Russian attitudes toward Ukraine. These notions were then challenged and subverted in a counter-discourse that shaped Ukrainian literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConcepts of civilizational superiority and redemptive assimilation, widely held among nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals, helped to form stereotypes of Ukraine and Ukrainians in travel writings, textbooks, and historical fiction, stereotypes that have been reactivated in ensuing decades. Both Russian and Ukrainian writers have explored the politics of identity in the post-Soviet period, but while the canon of Russian imperial thought is well known, the tradition of resistance B which in the Ukrainian case can be traced as far back as the meeting of the Russian and Ukrainian polities and cultures of the seventeenth century B is much less familiar. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShkandrij demonstrates that Ukrainian literature has been marginalized in the interests of converting readers to imperial and assimilatory designs by emphasizing narratives of reunion and brotherhood and denying alterity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Myroslav Shkandrij\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McGill-Queen's University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780773522343","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48296567636105,"sku":"9780773522343","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_feaf0cfb-9e4b-4ceb-bbf5-bbf810e99ac0.jpg?v=1788842895","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/russia-and-ukraine-literature-and-the-discourse-of-empire-from-napoleonic-to-postcolonial-times-9780773522343","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}