Writing Ukrainian literature in Russian, a lecture and seminar with Vitlay Chernetsky. This is Russpohone writing in Ukraine, relationships between language, literature, politics, between Russia, Ukraine and former Soviet Union countries. This seminar focused on work by four authors.
All four are contemporary writers creating literature using Russian language. These writers are Andrey Kurkov, Boris & Liudmila Khersonsky, Anastasia Afanasieva and Aleksandr Kabanov. Work covers writing from 2014 – present. This includes analysis of identity, narratives and language in literature.
Part of this work is factual documentary writing. One text is Ukraine Diaries by Kurkov from 2014. In this week’s Times Literary Supplement there are two articles about Ukrainian literature. One, Writers at war explores this topic, an analysis of war and documentary writing in Ukrainian. A second article about Ukrainian poetry is by Uilleam Blacker, lecturer from Literatura week 6. During early weeks of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine I followed Yevgenia Belorusets War Diary available in publication and on Isolarii’s website here: https://www.isolarii.com/kyiv