Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma

By: Hundorova, Tamara

This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The main themes in the book are postcolonial traumas in relation to past empires and old historiographical narratives; post-totalitarian consciousness, which is characterized by sociocultural ruptures, postcolonial resentment, and intergenerational crises; and post-memory as a means of overcoming historical and familial traumas. Against the backdrop of the Chornobyl catastrophe, the book examines the meeting of different generations and views the clown Verka Serduchka as a mediator between the transition from the Soviet to the post-Soviet world. The book focuses on three significant Ukrainian novels written between the two Maidans: The Museum of Abandoned Secrets by Oksana Zabuzhko (2009), Voroshilovgrad by Serhiy Zhadan (2010), and Notes of a Ukrainian Madman by Lina Kostenko (2010).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FVSBQ1K7
• ISBN13: 9798897831166
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"