Having exploded on the margins of Europe, Chornobyl marked the end of the Soviet Union and tied the era of postmodernism in Western Europe with nuclear consciousness. The Post-Chornobyl Library in Tamara Hundorova’s book becomes a metaphor of a new Ukrainian literature of the 1990s, which emerges out of the Chornobyl nuclear trauma of the 26th of April, 1986. Ukrainian postmodernism turns into a writing of trauma and reflects the collisions of the post-Soviet time as well as the processes of...
Examines interrelations between Poles, Ukrainians and Jews in the context of Soviet and Nazi occupation of Central Europe Will appeal to the readers interested in WWII, Holocaust, communism, nationalism, and the history of Eastern EuropeIncludes
