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In Eastern Europe and Eurasia, LGBT+ individuals face repression by
state forces and non-state actors who attempt to reinforce their
vision of traditional social values. Decolonizing Queer Experience
moves beyond discourses of oppression and repression to explore the
resistance and resilience of LGBT+ communities who are remaking the
post-socialist world; they refuse domination from local
heteronormative expectations and from global LGBT+ movements that
create and suggest limitations on possible LGBT+ futures. The
chapters in this collection feature a multiplicity of LGBT+ voices,
suggesting that no single narrative of LGBT+ experience in
post-socialism is more representative or informative than another.
This collection highlights the globally flexible, infinitely
malleable notion of LGBT+ that counters Western hegemony in queer
activism and communities.
Since the end of state socialism and the unifying efforts of the
Soviet Union, questions about LGBT+ have gained increasing
attention among scholars of various disciplines. In the region of
Eastern Europe and Eurasia, LGBT+ individuals face repression by
state forces, as well as by non-state actors attempting to
reinforce their vision of traditional social values. Understanding
this context, Decolonizing Queer Experience moves beyond discourses
of oppression and repression to explore the resistance and
resilience of LGBT+ communities that are remaking the
post-socialist world in ways that refuse domination from their own,
local heteronormative expectations as well as those imposed from
global LGBT+ movements that also create and suggest limitations on
possible LGBT+ futures. These chapters reflect a multiplicity of
voices that fall into a broad community of LGBT+ people, suggesting
that no single narrative of LGBT+ experience in post-socialism is
more representative or informative than another. These chapters are
evidence of a globally flexible, infinitely malleable notion of
LGBT+ that counters Western hegemony in queer activism and
communities.
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Winter King
Ostap Slyvynsky; Translated by Vitaly Chernetsky, Iryna Shuvalova
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The Winter King by Ostap Slyvynsky presents a selection from a
decade and a half worth of work by one of Ukraine's most prominent
contemporary voices in poetry. Slyvynsky is the poet of everyday
things. He writes of children's games, old trees, and family
stories. Yet, what emerges from under his pen is a portrait of an
era. His writing, simultaneously delicate and unflinchingly
incisive, like a surgeon's hand, always probes for the bottomless
depths gaping behind the mundane. Perhaps the greatest of
Slyvynsky's gifts as a poet is his ability to examine individual
voices and memories for traces of larger historical events without
ever trivializing the former in the face of the latter. His spare,
lean poems unearth a complex and layered human reality that is both
universal and strikingly, almost painfully rooted in the landscape
that birthed it, be it the poet's family home in the Carpathian
mountains or the Maidan square in Kyiv, aflame with revolution.
Slyvynsky's remarkable attention to detail results in strikingly
beautiful and enigmatic texts that invite multiple re-readings,
each peeling off yet another layer of reality. However, what always
remains at the core after these layers are stripped off is the
poet's profound humanity. Drawing on three of Slyvynsky's earlier
poetry collections, this volume also includes some of his most
recent poems--arguably, among the poet's best.
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Twelve Circles (Paperback)
Yuri Andrukhovych; Translated by Vitaly Chernetsky
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The Moscoviad (Paperback)
Vitaly Chernetsky; Photographs by Slava Mogutin; Yuri Andrukhovych
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Fiction. Eastern European Studies. Translated from the Ukrainian by
Vitaly Chernetsky. "The literary dormitory at Moscow University
becomes a kind of Russian Grand Hotel, serving the last supper of
empire to a host of writers gathered from every corner of the
continent, and beyond. Young poets from Vietnam, Mongolia, Yakutia,
Uzbekistan, Russia, and Ukraine assemble to study, drink, frolic,
and explore each other and the decaying city around them. When the
supper turns into a bacchanal, who's surprised? 'The empire
betrayed its drunks. And thus doomed itself to disintegration.'
Part howl, part literary slapstick, part joyful dirge, charged with
the brashness of youth, betraying the vision of the permanent
outsider, Andrukhovych's novel suggests that literature really is
news that stays news. Funny, buoyant, flamboyant, ground-breaking,
and as revelatory today as when it was first published in
Ukrainian, THE MOSCOVIAD remains a literary milestone. In spirit
and intellectual brio Andrukhovych, whose irreverence makes Borat
seem pious, is kin to the great Halldor Laxness and the venerable
David Foster Wallace"--Askold Melnyczuk.
Yuri Andrukhovych emerged as a prominent voice in Ukrainian
literature with the publication of his first book of poems in 1985.
The same year, together with Oleksandr Irvanets and Viktor Neborak,
he formed the poetic group Bu-ba-bu, which became a leading force
in Ukrainian poetic innovation for nearly a decade. After
publishing only prose for a number of years, Andrukhovych returned
to poetry in great form but with a much-changed poetics in 2004,
with the publication of another collection. A comprehensive
selection of his poetry from the 1980s-1990s, titled Lysty v
Ukrainu (Letters to Ukraine), came out in 2013; in it, Andrukhovych
revisited and revised several of those texts. This book traces the
evolution of his poetics from the 1980s onward.
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