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Article: American literary studies in Ukraine: yesterday, today and tomorrow.
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- American Studies International
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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For obvious political reasons, Ukraine has not figured very prominently in the cultural encyclopedia of the average American. A good characterization of this deficit is found in Walker Percy's Thanatos Syndrome, when someone asks a rhetorical question, "Who remembers Ukrainians?" taking for granted their complete disappearance as a nation from the human community, a disappearance not unlike the extinction of the dinosaur. Even though history has tended to overlook Ukraine, Ukrainians are currently trying hard to stage a comeback--the newly independent nation is going through a painstaking process of reclaiming its place in world history and culture. Along with rewriting ...