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Oksana Zabuzhko; Edited by Nina Shevchuk-Murray; Translated by Halyna Hryn, Askold Melnyczuk, Nina Shevchuk-Murray, …
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Oksana Zabuzhko, author of “the most influential Ukrainian book
in the fifteen years since independence,” Fieldwork in Ukrainian
Sex, returns with a gripping short story collection. Oksana
Zabuzhko, Ukraine’s leading public intellectual, is called upon
to make sense of the unthinkable reality of our times. In this
breathtaking short story collection, she turns the concept of truth
over in her hands like a beautifully crafted pair of gloves. From
the triumph of the Orange Revolution, which marked the start of the
twenty-first century, to domestic victories in matchmaking, sibling
rivalry, and even tennis, Zabuzhko manages to shock the reader by
juxtaposing things as they are—inarguable, visible to the naked
eye—with how things could be, weaving myth and fairy tale into
pivotal moments just as we weave a satisfying narrative arc into
our own personal mythologies. At once intimate and worldly, these
stories resonate with Zabuzhko’s irreverent and prescient voice,
echoing long after reading.
The years 2002-2003 marked the seventieth anniversary of the
man-made famine inflicted on Ukraine and surrounding areas by
Stalin's Soviet leadership. The Harvard Ukrainian Research
Institute commemorated the anniversary with a symposium in October
2003 titled "The Ukrainian Terror-Famine of 1932-1933: Revisiting
the Issues and the Scholarship Twenty Years after the HURI Famine
Project." This volume contains some of the papers presented at the
symposium (previously published in Harvard Ukrainian Studies volume
25, no. 3/4), including Sergei Maksudov's large-scale demographic
study drawing on available documents of the era; Niccolo
Pianciola's description of the denomadization famine in Kazakhstan
from 1931 to 1933; and Gijs Kessler's study of events in the Urals
region from the same period. Also included in this volume are
Andrea Graziosi's remarks on the present state of Famine
scholarship and how it addresses the question of genocide, Hennadii
Boriak's assessment of the current state of source material, and an
essay by George Grabowicz on the legacy of the Famine in Ukraine
today.
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