Where Currents Meet by Tanya Zaharchenko - 9789633861202

Where Currents MeetFrontiers of Memory in Post-Soviet Fiction of Kharkiv, Ukraine\nAuthor(s): Tanya Zaharchenko\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Central European University Press, Hungary\nImprint: Central European University Press\nISBN-13: 9789633861202, 978-9633861202\nSynopsis\nWhere Currents Meet, Tanya Zaharchenko's path-breaking study of literature and cultural memory, moves decisively beyond the simplistic view of a post-Soviet Ukraine divided between east and west. It positions the Ukrainian and Russian components of cultural experience in the country's east as elements of a complex continuum. Combining insights from memory studies and border studies, Zaharchenko analyzes a generation of younger riters in the city of Kharkiv - a 'doubletake generation' that came of age at the time of the Soviet Union's collapse and now revisits this experience through fiction. In the works of Serhiy Zhadan, Andree Krasniashchikh, Yuri Tsaplin, Oleh Kotsarev, and others the author reveals how b.