Ukrainian Studies


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Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

SLA358, Breaking Away from Empire:
Ukrainian Fiction Since Independence
Spring 2025


Class meets on Wednesdays 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM in Alumni Hall 304


Instructor:Maxim Tarnawsky121 St. Joseph St. Alumni Hall 403
maxim.tarnawsky@utoronto.ca 416–978–8972


Course Schedule


Schedule of class reports.
Schedule of Class Meetings
 
Jan 8 Introduction. Ukrainian fiction after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Read Sofia Andrukhovych, “Forevatogetha” for this class.
  15Valerii Shevchuk. Eye of the Abyss. (Part 1) and (Part 2)
  22Taras Prokhasko. The UnSimple. (Part 1) and (Part 2)
  29Yuri Andrukhovych. Twelve Circles.
Feb 5 Oksana Zabuzhko. Field Work in Ukrainian Sex.
  12 Oles Ulianenko.Stalinka. (Part 1) and (Part 2)
Assignment 1 due
  19Reading week
  26 Tanja Maljartschuk. A Biography of a Chance Miracle. Tr. Zenia Tompkins
Mar 5Maria Matios. Hardly Ever Otherwise
  12 Poetry from The White Chalk of Days, ed. Mark Andryczyk. Read works of Oleh Lysheha, Marjana Savka, Viktor Neborak, Andriy Bondar, Ivan Malkovych, Lyuba Yakimchuk.
  19Serhiy Zhadan. Voroshilovhrad.
Assignment 2 due
  26 Andriy Lyubka. Carbide.
Apr 2Andrey Kurkov. Grey Bees.
In-class concluding test.

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