Nikolai Gogol
Performing Hybrid Identity
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"This innovative, multidisciplinary study of the life and work of Nikolai Gogol (1809–52) explores his complex identity as a nineteenth-century writer of Ukrainian origin who contradictorily achieved world renown as an icon of Russian literature."
» K. Rosneck, University of Wisconsin-Madison, <EM>CHOICE</EM>
One of the great writers of the nineteenth century, Nikolai Gogol was born and raised in Ukraine before he was lionized and canonized in Russia. The ambiguities within his subversive, ironic works are matched by those that surround the debate over his national identity. Les mer
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One of the great writers of the nineteenth century, Nikolai Gogol was born and raised in Ukraine before he was lionized and canonized in Russia. The ambiguities within his subversive, ironic works are matched by those that surround the debate over his national identity. This book presents a completely new assessment of the problem: rather than adopting the predominant "either/or" perspective – wherein Gogol is seen as either Ukrainian or Russian – it shows how his cultural identity was a product of negotiation with imperial and national cultural codes and values. By examining Gogol’s ambivalent self-fashioning, language performance, and textual practices, this book shows how Gogol played with both imperial and local sources of identity and turned his hybridity into a project of subtle cultural resistance.
Ilchuk provides a comprehensive account of assimilation and hybridization of Ukrainians in the Russian empire, arguing that Russia’s imperial culture has depended on Ukraine and the participation of Ukrainian intellectuals in its development. Ilchuk also introduces innovative computer-assisted methods of textual analysis to demonstrate the palimpsest-like quality of Gogol’s texts and national identity.
Ilchuk provides a comprehensive account of assimilation and hybridization of Ukrainians in the Russian empire, arguing that Russia’s imperial culture has depended on Ukraine and the participation of Ukrainian intellectuals in its development. Ilchuk also introduces innovative computer-assisted methods of textual analysis to demonstrate the palimpsest-like quality of Gogol’s texts and national identity.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Toronto Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781487508258
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
- Priser
- 2022 USC Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies Awarded by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2023
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"This innovative, multidisciplinary study of the life and work of Nikolai Gogol (1809–52) explores his complex identity as a nineteenth-century writer of Ukrainian origin who contradictorily achieved world renown as an icon of Russian literature."
» K. Rosneck, University of Wisconsin-Madison, <EM>CHOICE</EM>
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"Her approach is necessarily and wonderfully multidisciplinary, and one fully expects that Nikolai Gogol will appeal to scholars of Russian and Ukrainian literature, ethnicity and nationalism, and critical theory and the digital humanities in Slavic studies for years to come."
» Nicholas Kupensky, US Air Force Academy, <em>H-Net Reviews</em>
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"Ilchuk’s exploration of Gogol’s hybrid identity and language raises fascinating questions and provides profound insights, and her book is a valuable contribution to Gogolian scholarship. The issues and questions she raises provide fertile ground for additional scholarship, and that is a mark of a genuinely significant book."
» Michael R. Kelly, Brigham Young University, <em>Slavic Review</em>
«“It is hard to think what more this book could do. Devoted to the topic of identity in its dizzying complexity, it is theoretically sophisticated, clearly and engagingly written, methodologically bold, and rich in detail. Ultimately Ilchuk’s aim, in the best spirit of the theorists whose ideas she mobilizes, is not only to provide an objective analysis of an oeuvre, idiom, and life, but also to show its positive generative potential. She succeeds.”»
Timothy Langen, University of Missouri, <em>Modern Language Review</em>
«“Ilchuk’s study will appeal to scholars of Russian and Ukrainian literature as well as the growing subdiscipline of postcolonial studies within the Slavic field. Her conscientious application of computer-assisted analytical methods, as well as her detailed description of the digital platforms she used, will allow the monograph to serve as a case study for others eager to investigate tools from the Digital Humanities.”»
Kathleen Scollins, University of Vermont, <em>Pushkin Review</em>
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