Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Ukrainian Literature Rethinking the Canon

This course is a survey of the major writers and works of Ukrainian literature from the 1920s to the present with a special focus on how their reception and evaluation has been reconfigured by Ukraine's independence. The course examines topics including modernism and postmodernism the "executed renaissance" socialist realism the literature of dissent and emigration and underground and post-Soviet literature as well as addressing problems and misperceptions of Ukrainian writers and works.