Ukrainian Studies


Girl-tanks

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

SLA358H1S, Breaking Away from Empire:
Ukrainian Fiction Since Independence
Spring 2023


Class meets on Wednesdays 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM.


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


Course Schedule


Schedule of class reports.
Schedule of Class Meetings
 
Jan 11 Introduction. Ukrainian fiction after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Read Sofia Andrukhovych, “Forevatogetha” for this class.
  18Valerii Shevchuk. Eye of the Abyss. (Part 1) and (Part 2)
  25Taras Prokhasko. The UnSimple. (Part 1) and (Part 2)
Feb 1Yuri Andrukhovych. Twelve Circles.
  8 Oksana Zabuzhko. Field Work in Ukrainian Sex.
  15 Oles Ulianenko.Stalinka. (Part 1) and (Part 2)
Assignment 1 due
  22Reading week
Mar 1 Tanja Maljartschuk. A Biography of a Chance Miracle. Tr. Zenia Tompkins
  8Maria Matios. Hardly Ever Otherwise
  15 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.
  22Serhiy Zhadan. Voroshilovhrad.
Assignment 2 due
  29 Andriy Lyubka. Carbide.
Apr 5Andrey Kurkov. Grey Bees.
In-class concluding test.

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