International Politics Behind"Ukrainian Literature":Discourse from Western Slavic Studies
From the 1840s onwards,critics and literary historians both inside and outside the imperial Russian system,while differing in their perceptions of specific literary phenomena,regarded the literature of the Russian Empire,which had been expanding through colonial expansion,as a unified"Russian literature."In this literary map,there is no non-Russian literature,including"Ukrainian literature".This discursive strategy,which departs from history to a considerable extent,was continued and intensified during the Soviet period.Scholars of Ukrainian descent living in exile in Europe and the United States continued to set up academic organizations to discover"Ukrainian history"and"Ukrainian literature"through a large number of historical materials,so as to deconstruct the"history of Russian literature"constructed by the Soviet Union.The separation of Ukrainian literature from Russian literature as a specialized literary phenomenon not only helps to restore the status of Ukraine as a subject nation and state,but also reverses the unifying concept of"Russian literature"that has been established by the Russians over the past three centuries,which,together with the Ukrainian diaspora's act of preserving and expressing Ukrainian identity,is an important force in the formation,development,and growth of Ukrainian consciousness as a subject nation.This scholarly work and its results became part of western slavic studies,which provided intellectual resources for the construction of a subjective nation and state in post-Soviet Ukraine,shaping the Ukrainian subjective consciousness as distinct from that of the Russians.
Ukrainian LiteratureRussian LiteratureUkrainian EmigrantsWestern Slavic StudiesUkrainian National Identity
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