- Spring 2019
Syllabus Description:
SLAVIC 490
Introduction to Ukrainian Literature and Culture
Spring 2019
Meeting time: T/Th, 1:30-2:20
Instructor: Lidiya Oryshchuk
Office: Padelford A215
e-mail: lidiyao@uw.edu
Office hours: T/Th 11:30-12:20 and by appointment
Description:
Provides an overview of Ukrainian culture: literature, film, music, theatre, art, and architecture, as well as an introduction to Ukrainian cultural life. Taught in English.
Required Texts:
Helbig, A., Buranbaeva, Oksana, & Mladineo, Vanja. (2009). Culture and customs of Ukraine (Culture and customs of Europe). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
& Articles and chapters on canvas.
Recommended Texts:
You may wish to consider the following materials.
- Laada Bilaniuk. Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine. Ithaca, NY, USA, Cornell University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0801472792
- Andrew Wilson. The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation. New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-300-09309-8
- Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych and Maria G. Rewakowicz, eds. Armonk, NY. M. E. Sharpe, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-7656-2400-0
- Cybriwsky, R. (2014). Kyiv, Ukraine : The city of domes and demons from the collapse of socialism to the mass uprising of 2013-2014. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Evaluations:
Reading discussions – 20%
Follow the reading schedule closely and be prepared to discuss assigned texts in class, contribute your comments and critical evaluations.
Cultural Commentaries – 40%
Comment on how the concepts discussed in weeks 1-3 (History, language, customs, holidays and cuisine) and 5-8 (Literature, Music, Art, Cinema, Pop culture) are used to shape identity and relate to concepts of another culture you know. 3-4 pages (spacing irrelevant). Commentary 1 - due April 30, Commentary 2 - due May 28.
Term paper – 40% (due June 13)
You should discuss your project with the instructor and by May 9 email the instructor with your topic and three references. You may choose one of the prompts below to help you come up with the paper topic:
- Compare and contrast a concept that you learned about in class with those from your home culture or culture you live in.
- Research a phenomena, event, or influential figure in Ukrainian history and/or culture that has not been discussed in class, relate what you learned about them to concepts studied in class.
Course Outline and Reading List
Week 1 |
Context and history
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Culture and customs of Ukraine, Chapter 1
Andrew Wilson. The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation. Chapter 15
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Week 2 |
Language
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Culture and customs of Ukraine, Chapter 3
Laada Bilaniuk. Contested Tongues. Chapter 3, pp. 71–102 Laada Bilaniuk. Contested Tongues. Chapter 6, pp. 173–193
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Week 3 |
Religion |
Culture and customs of Ukraine, Chapter 2
Novikova, Katarina. “Religion and the National Idea in the Context of the Euromaydan Events” in Religion, State, Society, and Identity in Transition Ukraine, pp. 263-280
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Week 4 |
Customs, holidays and cuisine
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Culture and customs of Ukraine, Chapter 6 |
Week 5 |
Literature
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Culture and customs of Ukraine, Chapter 8
Zubrytska, M. (2006). Mirrors, windows and maps: The topology of cultural identification in contemporary Ukrainian literature - Introduction. Slavic And East European Journal, 50(3), 404-408.
Onyshkevych, L. (2006). Cultural Perceptions, Mirror Images, and Western Identification in New Ukrainian Drama. The Slavic and East European Journal, 50(3), 409-433.
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Week 6 |
Music
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Culture and customs of Ukraine, Chapter 9
Marko Pavlyshyn. "Envisioning Europe: Ruslana's Rhetoric of Identity" in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 395–410.
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Week 7 |
Art, cinema
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Culture and customs of Ukraine, Chapter 10
Shkandrij, Myroslav. "Contemporary Ukrainian Art and the Twentieth Century Avant-Garde" in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 411–431.
Shevchuk, Yuri. "Linguistic Strategies of Imperial Appropriation: Why Ukraine is Absent from World Film History." in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 359–374.
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Week 8 |
Media and popular culture
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Culture and customs of Ukraine, Chapter 7
Dyczok, Marta. "Ukraine's Changing Communicative Space: Destination Europe or the Soviet Past?" in Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe, pp. 375–394.
Wolburg, Joyce. "'Regulating Sin' Across Cultures: A Comparison of Alcohol Ads in Ukrainian and American Magazines." Journal of advertising 38.4 (2009):15-36
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Week 9
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Kyiv
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Cybriwsky, R. (2014). Kyiv, Ukraine : The city of domes and demons from the collapse of socialism to the mass uprising of 2013-2014. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Chapters 6 &9
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Week 10 |
Identity
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Read Jansen, M. “One or More Ukraines?” in Religion, State, Society and Identity in Ukraine, pp. 47-69
Presentations of term projects
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