In this article, I analyze instances of Ukrainian poetry written between Taras Shevchenko's death and the establishment of modernism that deal with the theme of the precarity of Ukrainian literature as a consequence of the lack of a Ukrainian nation in those times. On the basis of examples drawn from the works of Pantelejmon Kulish, Lesja Ukrajinka, Mychajlo Staryc'kyj, Borys Hrinchenko, Volodymyr Samijlenko, Volodymyr Shashkevych, and Ivan Franko, I aim to show how Ukrainian poets of the second half of the 19th century tended to imagine the Ukrainian community as belonging to the past and/or the future, while its presence and its agency in the present are made impossible by imperial subjugation, hence making communication, including literary, impossible or powerless. In the final part of my article, I also reflect on the complex nexus between aesthetic judgment and the re-evaluation of Ukrainian literary history.
In questo articolo vengono analizzati testi poetici ucraini scritti tra la morte di Taras Ševčenko e l'avvento del modernismo incentrati sul tema della precarietà della letteratura ucraina come conseguenza della mancanza di una nazione ucraina. Sulla base di esempi tratti dall'opera di Pantelejmon Kuliš, Lesja Ukrajinka, Mychajlo Staryc'kyj, Borys Hrinčenko, Volodymyr Samijlenko, Volodymyr Šaškevyč e Ivan Franko si cercherà di mostrare come la poesia ucraina della seconda metà dell'Ottocento tenda a immaginare la comunità ucraina come appartenente al passato e/o al futuro, mentre la sua presenza e la sua agency nel presente sono rese impossibili dalla sottomissione all'impero, il che rende ogni comunicazione, inclusa quella letteraria, impossibile o limitata. Nella parte finale dell'articolo si riflette sul nesso tra la prassi del giudizio estetico e la rivalutazione della storia letteraria ucraina.
Making Verse in a Precarious Language: Poetry in Late 19th-Century Ukrainian Culture between Silence and Music, Present and Future
Achilli, Alessandro
2024-01-01
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In this article, I analyze instances of Ukrainian poetry written between Taras Shevchenko's death and the establishment of modernism that deal with the theme of the precarity of Ukrainian literature as a consequence of the lack of a Ukrainian nation in those times. On the basis of examples drawn from the works of Pantelejmon Kulish, Lesja Ukrajinka, Mychajlo Staryc'kyj, Borys Hrinchenko, Volodymyr Samijlenko, Volodymyr Shashkevych, and Ivan Franko, I aim to show how Ukrainian poets of the second half of the 19th century tended to imagine the Ukrainian community as belonging to the past and/or the future, while its presence and its agency in the present are made impossible by imperial subjugation, hence making communication, including literary, impossible or powerless. In the final part of my article, I also reflect on the complex nexus between aesthetic judgment and the re-evaluation of Ukrainian literary history.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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