Table of Contents

I: Mapping the Nation; 1: The Western Dimension of the Making of Modern Ukraine; 2: Cultural Fault Lines and Political Divisions; 3: Ukraine's Road to Europe; 4: Finis Europae; 5: The Status of Religion in Ukraine in Relation to European Standards; 6: Missionaries and Pluralism; 7: The Future of Ukraine if Values Determine the Course; 8: Accountability for Human Rights Violations by Soviet and Other Communist Regimes and the Position of the Council of Europe; 9: Collective Memory as a Device for Constructing a New Gender Myth; II: Reflecting Identities; 10: Mirrors, Windows, and Maps; 11: Cultural Perceptions, Mirror Images, and Western Identification in New Ukrainian Drama; 12: Ukrainian Avant-Garde Poetry Today; 13: Nativists versus Westernizers; 14: Back to the Golden Age; 15: Symbols of Transformation; 16: Choosing a Europe; 17: Images of Bonding and Social Decay in Contemporary Ukrainian Prose; 18: Women's Literary Discourse and National Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine; III: Manifesting Culture; 19: The European Dimension Within the Current Controversy over the Ukrainian Language Standard; 20: Colonial Linguistic Reflexes in a Post-Soviet Setting; 21: Criticism and Confidence; 22: Linguistic Strategies of Imperial Appropriation; 23: Ukraine's Changing Communicative Space; 24: Envisioning Europe; 25: Contemporary Ukrainian Art and the Twentieth Century Avant-Garde; 26: “The Past Is My Beginning …”

About the Author

Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych, Maria G. Rewakowicz