Making Verse in a Precarious Language: Poetry in Late 19th-Century Ukrainian Culture between Silence and Music, Present and Future

Author:

Achilli Alessandro1

Affiliation:

1. Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Lettere, Lingue e Beni Culturali , Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari , Italy Italy

Abstract

Summary In this article, I analyze instances of Ukrainian poetry written between Taras Ševčenko’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 Kuliš, Lesja Ukrajinka, Mychajlo Staryc’kyj, Borys Hrinčenko, Volodymyr Samijlenko, Volodymyr Šaškevyč, 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.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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