Krys

The Origins of Ukrainian Gothic

History, Cultural Hauntings, and Political Imagination. Sprachen: Englisch. 23,1 cm / 15,0 cm / 2,3 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Hardcover), 264 Seiten
EAN 9781049801650
Veröffentlicht Mai 2026
Verlag/Hersteller University of Toronto Press
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Beschreibung

Ukrainian dark prose that draws on the conventions of the British and western European Gothic novel emerged in the nineteenth century and continued uninterrupted until the early twentieth century. Writers like Orest Somov and Mykola Hohol' engaged the cultural capital of the Gothic literary tradition, adjusting it to their local contexts. However, as this study shows, Gothic conventions slowly became a platform to introduce politically dissenting views. Ukrainian Romantics who used horror as a distancing technique began to pursue the Ukrainian national idea, first covertly and later more openly. This was followed by an aesthetic shift in post-Romantic authors such as Marko Vovchok and Liudmyla Staryts'ka-Cherniakhivs'ka, who began to employ the horrific purposefully to condemn the colonial, imperialistic politics of the Russian Empire and its successor the Soviet Union toward Ukraine. This thematic direction shaped the character of the Ukrainian Gothic over the first century of its incipience, from the 1820s until the late 1920s, just before the Stalinist purges. Through a comparative study of the horror works of selected authors vis-à-vis major developments in the Gothic genre and the application of postcolonial theory, this monograph capitalizes on the subversive tendencies of the Ukrainian Gothic. Drawing novel theoretical conclusions about the development of the genre in its adopted Ukrainian context, this book depicts how the Gothic became a powerful tool of resistance and decolonization.

Portrait

Svitlana (Lana) Krys is an associate professor and the chair of the department of English at MacEwan University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Translation and Transliteration List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction  I: Emergence of the Ukrainian Gothic Fiction 1. Borderline Gothic: Between Comedy and Horror 2. Ahead of Folk Horror: Ukrainian Romanticism and Its Dark Aesthetics 3. The Cossack Gothic: Imperial Hauntings and Ukrainian Nation-Building II: Evolution of the Gothic Genre 4. The Female Gothic: Intersection of Gender and Nation(hood) 5. The Gothic and Politics: The War and Revolutionary Discourse Afterword: The Ukrainian Gothic or Gothic Ukraine? Works Cited

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