5. Chornobyl and Virtuality

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Translator’s Acknowledgements ix
5. A Note on Transliteration xi
6. Preface xiii
7. PART ONE. Chornobyl and Postmodernism
8. 1. Nuclear Discourse, or Literature after Chornobyl 3
9. 2. Nuclear Apocalypse and Postmodernism 10
10. 3. The Socialist Realist Chornobyl Discourse 16
11. 4. Nuclear (Non)-Representation 22
12. 5. Chornobyl and Virtuality 28
13. 6. Chornobyl and the Cultural Archive 33
14. 7. Chornobyl Postmodern Topography 38
15. 8. Chornobyl and the Crisis of Language 44
16. PART TWO. Post-Totalitarian Trauma and Ukrainian Postmodernism
17. 9. Postmodernism: The Synchronization of History 51
18. 10. Ukrainian Postmodernism: The Historical Framework 60
19. 11. A Farewell to the Classic 66
20. 12. The “Ex-Centricity” of the Great Character 83
21. 13. Postmodernism and the “Cultural Organic” 91
22. 14. Postmodernism as Ironic Behavior 96
23. PART THREE. The Postmodern Carnival
24. 15. Bu-Ba-Bu: A New Literary Formation 103
25. 16. The Carnivalesque Postmodern 109
26. 17. Yuri Andrukhovych’s Carnival: A History of Self-Destruction 119
27. 18. After the Carnival: Bu-Ba-Bu Postmortem 136
28. PART FOUR. Faces and Topoi of Ukrainian Postmodernism
29. 19. Narrative Apocalypse: Taras Prokhasko’s Topographic Writing 157
30. 20. The Virtual Apocalypse: The Post-Verbal Writing of Yurko Izdryk 164
31. 21. The Grotesques of the Kyiv Underground: Dibrova— Zholdak—Podervianskyi 175
32. 22. Feminist Postmodernism: Oksana Zabuzhko 186
33. 23. Postmodern Europe: Revision, Nostalgia, and Revenge 198
34. 24. The Chornobyl Apocalypse of Yevhen Pashkovsky 210
35. 25. The Postmodern Homelessness of Serhiy Zhadan 218
36. 26. Volodymyr Tsybulko’s Pop-Postmodernism 237
37. 27. The (De)KONstructed Postmodernism of Yuriy Tarnawsky 253
38. PART FIVE. Postscript
39. A Comment from the “End of Postmodernism” 269
40. A Commentary on the “End of Ukrainian Postmodernism” 290
41. Bibliography 303
42. Index 315