Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

SLA248H1. Women and Women's Themes in Ukrainian Literature. Spring 2023

Class meets Tuesdays 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM.

The following books are required. They are available at the University of Toronto Bookstore, Koffler Centre, 214 College St.

• O'ha Kobylians'ka. On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs. Tr. Mary Skrypnyk. Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2001. ISBN 1-895571-34-0. Or Amazon
• Maria Matios. Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages. trs. Michael Naydan & Olha Tytarenko. New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2019. ISBN 978–1947980938



• For a Crust of Bread. tr. Roma Franko. Series: Women's Voices in Ukrainian Literature, Vol 6. Saskatoon: Language Lantern Publications, 1998. ISBN 0-9683899-5-3. Available only from the instructor, $20, cash.


Readings prepared by the instructor for this class. Online PDFs. Items from :
• From Three Worlds: New Ukrainian Writing. Ed. Ed Hogan. Boston: Zephyr Press, 1996. ISBN 0-939010-52-6. No longer in print.
  • Oksana Bilotserkivets, Poems. in From Three Worlds, pp. 148–61
  • Valerii Shevchuk, "The Moon's Cuckoo." in From Three Worlds, pp. 100–36.
  
  
• Ukrainian Literature: A Journal of Translations. Volume 1, 2004. This is an on-line and print journal. Use the on-line texts at www.UkrainianLiterature.org
• Ievheniia Kononenko. "On Sunday Morning." in Ukrainian Literature, Volume 1, 2004. pp. 151–55.
• Oleksander Irvanets. "A Little Play about Betrayal, for One Actress." in Ukrainian Literature, Volume 1, 2004. pp. 211–19.


• Two Lands, NewVisions: Stories from Canada and Ukraine. Trs. Marco Carynnyk and Marta Horban. Regina: Coteau Books, 1999. ISBN 1-55050-134-8. No longer in print.
  • Svitlana Kasianova, "Cold Medicine." in Two Lands, New Visions, pp. 77–86.
  • Iurii Vynnychuk. "The Day of the Angel." in Two Lands, New Visions, pp. 87–98.
  • Oksana Zabuzhko, "I, Milena" Two Lands, New Visions, pp. 125–61.
  
  
• Anon. "Duma about Marusia Bohuslavka."
• Anon. "Iaroslavna's lament (Igor's Tale)"
• Taras Shevchenko. "Kateryna," "Maria." . You can also have a look at this alternative translation of Shevchenko's Kateryna by Mary Skrypnyk.
• Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko. Marusia.
• Marko Vovchok. "Instytutka". Another version, trans. O. Kovalenko. Click here.
Marko Vovchok. "Kozak Girl," and "Odarka."
• Lesia Ukrainka. Cassandra. Also please read the epilogue, not included in the Vera Rich translation. Original text in Ukrainian.
• Lesia Ukrainka. The Stone Host. Original text in Ukrainian.
• Lesia Ukrainka.Forest Song. Also available in a newer translations here also here.
• Ol'ha Kobylians'ka. "Impromptu Phantasie."
• Mykola Khvylovyi. "Puss in Boots."
• Vasyl' Stefanyk. "The Pious Woman."
• Oksana Zabuzhko, "Girls." This file contains both the translation and the original Ukrainian text.

The following items are recommended as further reading and as material for class reports:

• All of the volumes in the Women's Voices in Ukrainian Literature Series:
• The Spirit of the Times: Selected Prose Fiction by Olena Pchilka and Nataliya Kobrynska. Roma Franko, trans. Sonia Morris, ed. Women's Voices in Ukrainian Literature, vol. I. Saskatoon, SK: Language Lanterns Publications, 1998. PG3932.5 .W65 S65 1998
• In the Dark of the Night: Selected Prose Fiction by Dniprova Chayka and Lyubov Yanovska. Roma Franko, trans. Sonia Morris, ed. Women's Voices in Ukrainian Literature, vol. II. Saskatoon, SK: Language Lanterns Publications, 1998. PG3932.5 .W65 I5713
• But the Lord is Silent: Selected Prose Fiction by Olha Kobylianska and Yevheniya Yaroshynska. Roma Franko, trans. Sonia Morris, ed. Women's Voices in Ukrainian Literature, vol. III. Saskatoon, SK: Language Lanterns Publications, 1999. PG 3948 .K55A6 1999
• From Heart to Heart: Selected Prose Fiction by Hrytsko Hryhorenko and Lesya Ukrainka. translated by Roma Franko ; edited by Sonia Morris. Roma Franko, trans. Sonia Morris, ed. Women's Voices in Ukrainian Literature, vol. IV. Saskatoon, SK: Language Lanterns Publications, 1999. PG 3948 .H6984A6 1999
• Warm the Children, O Sun: Selected Prose Fiction by Olha Kobylianska, Olena Pchilka, Nataliya Kobrynska, Lyubov Yanovska, Hrytsko Hryhorenko, and Lesya Ukrainka. Roma Franko, trans. Sonia Morris, ed. Women's Voices in Ukrainian Literature, vol. V. Saskatoon, SK: Language Lanterns Publications, 2000. PG3932.5 .W65 W37 2000
• Solomea Pavlychko. "Modernism vs. Populism in Fin de Siècle Ukrainian Literature." PDF document
• Maxim Tarnawsky. "Feminism, Modernism, and Ukrainian Women", Journal of Ukrainian Studies 19, no. 2 (Winter 1994). PDF document
• A Hundred Years of Youth: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Ukrainian Poetry. Comp. Olha Luchuk and Michael M. Naydan. Lviv: Litopys, 2000. PG3986 .E3 S76 2000. [An anthology with a very wide variety of poetry represented.]
• Volodymyr Dibrova. Pentameron. In his Peltse and Pentameron . Trans. Halyna Hryn. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996. PG3949.14 .I27 A25 1996, SMC.
• Herstories: An Anthology of New Ukrainian Women Prose Writers. Compiled by Michael M. Naydan. London: Glagoslav, 2014. PG3986 .E8 H58 2014Y Amazon
• Maria Matios. Hardly Ever Otherwise. Tr. Yury Tkacz. London: Glagoslav, 2012. Amazon or Publisher
• Oleksandra Wallo. Ukrainian Women Writers and the National Imaginary: From the Collapse of the USSR to the Euromaidan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.