This bilingual Ukrainian-English collection for the first time makes the major works by Mykola (Nik) Bazhan, one of the most important Ukrainian Modernist poets of the twentieth century, available both to scholars and to the general reader.

With these essays, the Ukrainian Studies community worldwide wishes to celebrate Marko Pavlyshyn on his 65th birthday. The many periods and texts analyzed reflect the multifariousness of Marko’s scholarship and the interest in literature as an instrument of social communication that he shares with the authors of this book.

Courage and Fear is a meticulously documented study of Lviv’s intelligentsia during the Second World War, as the Soviet and German occupations obliterate the intricate social fabric of the city. This micro-history is told from the perspective of individuals, whose stories lost out to grand national narratives.

This book brings us to the very core of the debates about nations and nationalism. It presents a microhistory of Ivan Franko (1856-1916), a prolific writer and political activist, who was an indisputable leader in forging a modern Ukrainian identity in the late Habsburg Galicia.

Having exploded on the margins of Europe, Chornobyl marked the end of the Soviet Union and tied the era of postmodernism in Western Europe with nuclear consciousness. The Post-Chornobyl Library becomes a metaphor of a new Ukrainian literature of the 1990s, which emerges out of the Chornobyl nuclear trauma.

Ukrainian poets connected themselves to a powerful myth of New York, the myth of urban modernity and problematic vitality. The city of exiles and outsiders sees itself reflected in the mirror that newcomers and exiles created. By adding new voices and layers to this amalgam, it is possible to observe the expanded picture of this worldly poetic city.

The present book brings together—indeed, re-collects—some of the most valuable and thought-provoking research on Odessa and its culture, community, and economy published by Patricia Herlihy over several decades of her work. Scholars of Ukraine, Russia, and the former Soviet Union will find in this book a helpful resource for their research and teaching.

This anthology presents translations of literary works by Ukraine’s leading writers that imaginatively engage pivotal issues in today’s Ukraine and express its tribulations and jubilations. It offers English-language readers a wide array of the most beguiling literature written in Ukraine in the past fifty years.

The poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and forgiveness. The anthology brings together some of the most compelling poetic voices from different regions of Ukraine.

This book will stimulate scholarly interest in the Ukrainian language and literature that have faced numerous challenges in the modern period. May be used in university courses on the history of Slavic languages and literatures, contemporary theories of nation-building and national identity as well as language contact and sociolinguistics.