SLA396H. Exile and Displacement in Ukrainian Literature

Instructor:

Mykola Soroka

121 St. Joseph St.

Alumni Hall 406-A

mykola.soroka@utoronto.ca

Phone:

905/842-8818

Office Hours: W (3:00-4:00) and by appointment

Course Description

SLA96H1 examines how geographical displacement is reflected in Ukrainian literature throughout the 20^th century. Postmodern concept of displacement, which serves as a blanket term for such forms as exile, émigré, emigrant, diaspora, travel, expatriate, allows us to address questions pertaining to the homeland, hostland, identity, choice of language patterns, themes and settings. This course explores four historical waves of Ukrainian emigration (1891-1914; 1919-1939; 1945-1991; and after 1991), showing specific tensions between continuity of tradition and the challenges posed by new social and cultural environments. It also considers Ukrainian mainland writings (travel motifs of the modernist period, inner exile and prison literature).

Students are expected to submit eleven one to two page summaries devoted to weekly readings. These summaries will include students’ own arguments and interpretations. These summaries must be submitted to the instructor one day before the scheduled discussion in class. Each student will also make an oral presentation for ten-fifteen minutes, which will be followed by in-class discussion.

The course is limited to texts available in English. Students, however, are encouraged to use Ukrainian originals wherever possible.

Note: Students will be mostly provided with the required reading in a X-copied form for a small fee.

Graded Course Requirements:

Item	Due date	Percent of final grade
Attendance and participation		10%
Midterm essay (6-7 pages)	15 February	25%
One oral report with outline and corresponding bibliography	as scheduled	25%
Term paper (12-15 pages)	13 April	40%

Class Schedule

Month

Week

Class

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

Organizational Meeting.

Introduction. Displacement and Literature. Historical Overview of Ukrainian Emigration Waves.

Displacement and Modernism. Travel and Creativity: Lesia Ukrainka, Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi, Petro Karmanskyi.

First Wave: The Labour Emigration (1891-1914). Emigrant Literature: Sons of the Soil (1939-45) by Illia Kiriak.

First Wave. Emigrants through the Eyes of Ukrainian Writers: Ivan Franko, Vasyl Stefanyk and Bohdan Lepkyi.

Second Wave: A Political Emigration (1919-39). The Warsaw and Prague Groups (Ievhen Malaniuk, Oleh Olzhych, Olena Teliha).

Midterm test due.

Reading Week. No class.

Third Wave: The Post-War Emigration (1945-91).

Literature of Ukrainian Displaced Persons and Literary Discussion (1945-49). Iurii Klen.

Literature of the Ukrainian Diaspora (1950-70s). The Association of Ukrainian Writers “Slovo” (Yar Slavutych, Lida Palij, Oleh Zujewskyj, Borys Oleksandriv).

A Young Generation in a New Setting: the New York Group (Emma Andievska, Yury Tarnawsky, Vira Vovk).

Displacement and Inner Exile of Ukrainian Writers in the USSR. “Samvydav” and “Literature for the Drawer.” Prison Literature (Vasyl Stus, Mykola Rudenko, Vasyl Ruban).

In Search for a New Identity: English-Language Literature by Writers of Ukrainian Descent. Janice Kulyk Keefer.

Fourth Wave: The Post 1991 Emigration: Ukrainian Artists between Homeland and Hostland in a Globalized World.

Course Summary.

Class Readings

Month

Week

Class

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

Organizational Meeting.

Critical Reading.

Levin, Harry. “Literature and Exile.” In his Refractions in Comparative Literature, New York, 1966, pp. 62-81.

White, Paul. “Geography, Literature and Migration.” In Writing Across Worlds. Literature and Migration. Eds. Russell King, John Connell and Paul White. London and New York: Routledge, 1995, pp. 1-19.

“Emigration.” Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Ed. Volodymyr Kubijovyč. Toronto, Buffalo, London: U of Toronto P, 1984, pp. 818-24.

Texts.

Kotsiubynskyi, Mykhailo: “On the Rocks” in his Fata Morgana and Other Stories. Kiev: Dnipro, 1980, pp. 251-65. See also Their Land. An Anthology of Ukrainian Short Stories. Edited by Michael Luchkovich. Jersey City, N.J.: Svoboda Press, 1964, pp. 77-89.

Ukrainka, Lesia. From the cycle “Spring in Egypt” (pp. 119-27) in her Hope. Selected Poetry. Kyiv: Dnipro, 1981.

Karmanskyi, Petro. “In Rome” in The Ukrainian Poets, 1189-1962. Selected and translated into English verse by C.H. Andrusyshen and Watson Kirkconnell. Toronto: Published for the Ukrainian Canadian Committee by University of Toronto Press, 1963, pp. 289-90.

Critical Reading.

Carr, Helen. “Modernism and Travel (1880-1940).” In The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing. Eds. Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge UP, 2002, pp. 70-86.

Rubchak, Bohdan. “The Music of Satan and the Bedeviled World” in Kotsiubynskyi, Mykhailo. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. Trans. Marco Carynnyk. Littleton, CO: Ukrainian Academic Press for the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1981, pp. 79-121 (Sections 1 and 2, pp. 79-102).

Rudnyckyj, Jaroslav B. Egypt in Life and Work of Lesya Ukrainka. Cairo, Ottawa: 1983. 16 p. (Slavistica, No.83).

Texts.

Kiriak, Illia. Sons of the Soil. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1959. In Ukrainian: Kiriak, Illia. Syny zemli. Edmonton, Vol. 1, 1939; Vol. 2, 1940; and Vol. 3, 1945.

Critical Reading.

Mandryka, Mykyta. History of Ukrainian Literature in Canada (Winnipeg: Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences, 1968, pp. 72-77.

Satzewich, Vic. “Emigration and the Formation of a Labor Diaspora (1890-1914).” in his The Ukrainian Diaspora. London and New York: Routledge, 2002, pp.26-48.

Texts.

Stefanyk, Vasyl. “A Stone Cross.” In Struk, D. S. A Study of Vasyl’ Stefanyk: The Pain at the Heart of Existence. Ukrainian Academic Press, 1973. 145-54;

Ukrainian text can be found at http://www.interklasa.pl/portal/dokumenty/r_mowa/strony_ukr/biblioteka_spis.htm)

Franko, Ivan. “The Emigrants.” In his Poems and Stories. Trans. John Weir. Toronto: Ukrainska knyha, 1956, pp. 66-67; “A letter from Brazil (Beloved neighbours: Olesya writes these lines)”. Trans. John Weir. Ukrainian Canadian. 39.702 (196) (September 1986): 44-45.

Lepkyi, Bohdan. “The Cranes” in The Ukrainian Poets, 1189-1962, p. 305.

Critical Reading.

Struk, D. S. A Study of Vasyl’ Stefanyk: The Pain at the Heart of Existence. Ukrainian Academic Press, 1973. See Chapters 1 (pp. 15-33) and Chapter 5 (pp. 107-138).

Texts.

Malaniuk, Ievhen: selected poetry.

Olzhych, Oleh: selected poetry.

Teliha, Olena: selected poetry. (See Boundaries of Flame. A Complete Collection of Poetry. Baltimore and Toronto: Smoloskyp, 1977.)

Critical Reading.

Luckyj, George S. N. “Western Ukraine and Emigration, 1919-39” in Čyževs’kyj, Dmytro. A History of Ukrainian Literature (Second Edition) with an Overview of the Twentieth Century by George S. N. Luckyj. New York and Englewood, Colorado: The Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences and Ukrainian Academic Press, 1997, pp. 758-64.

Rubchak, Bohdan. 1983. “Homes as Shells: Ukrainian Émigré Poetry.” In The New Soil—Old Roots. The Ukrainian Experience in Canada. Ed. Jaroslav Rozumnyj, Winnipeg: Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Canada, pp. 87-123. (relevant excerpts).

Grabowicz, George. “The Voices of Ukrainian Émigré Poetry.” Canadian Slavonic Papers. 28.2 (June 1986): 157-173 (relevant excerpts).

Prokopiw, Orysia. “Olena Teliha.” In Teliha, Olena. Boundaries of Flame. A Complete Collection of Poetry. Baltimore and Toronto: Smoloskyp, 1977, pp. 17-31.

Midterm test assigned.

Reading Week. No class.

Texts.

Klen, Iurii. “Advanture of Archangel Rafael.” In Their Land. An Anthology of Ukrainian Short Stories. Ed. Michael Luchkovich. Jersey City and New York: Svoboda Press, 1964, pp. 179-202.

Critical Reading.

Struk, Danylo. “Organizational Aspects of DP Literary Activity” in The Refugee Experience: Ukrainian Displaced Persons after World War II. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1992, pp. 223-39.

Grabowicz, George. “’A Great Literature’.” in The Refugee Experience: Ukrainian Displaced Persons after World War II. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1992, pp. 240-68.

Recommended Reading

Satzewich, Vic. “The Third Wave: World War II and the Displaced Persons.” In his The Ukrainian Diaspora. London and New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. 86-106.

Texts.

Selected poetry of Yar Slavutych (pp. 253-263), Lida Palij (pp. 194-201), and Oleh Zujewskyj (pp. 300-304). Prose works by Borys Oleksandriv (“Doggish Popularity,” pp. 177-180). In Yarmarok: Ukrainian Writing in Canada Since the Second World War. Eds. Jars Balan and Yury Klynovy. Edmonton: CIUS, 1987.

Critical Reading.

Grabowicz, George. “The voices of Ukrainian émigré poetry.” Canadian Slavonic Papers. 28.2 (June 1986): 157-173 (relevant excerpts).

Grabowicz, George. “New directions in Ukrainian poetry in the United States.” Ed. Paul Magosci. The Ukrainian Experience in the United States. A Symposium. Cambridge: HURI, Harvard University, 1979. 156-178 (relevant excerpts).

Struk, Danylo. “Ukrainian Émigré Literature in Canada” in Identifications: Ethnicity and the Writer in Canada. Ed. Jars Balan. Edmonton: CIUS, University of Alberta, 1982, pp. 88-103 (relevant excerpts).

Texts.

Andiievska, Emma. Selections From Tyhry. Translated by Maria Kachmar. Ukrainian Literature. A Journal of Translations. Vol 1. 2004. https://tarnawsky.artsci.utoronto.ca/elul/ukr_lit/vol01/.

Vira Vovk, Vira. In A Hundred Years of Youth = Sto rokiv iunosti: A bilingual anthology of 20th century Ukrainian poetry. Compiled and edited by Olha Luchuk and Michael M. Naydan. Lviv: Litopys, 2000.

Tarnavskyi, Iurii. This is How I Get Well. Poems. Sučasnist, 1978.

Critical Reading.

Efimov-Schneider, Lisa. “Poetry of the New York Group: Ukrainian Poets in an American Setting.” Canadian Slavonic Papers. 3 (1981): 291-301.

Pytlowany, Melanie. “Continuity and Innovation in the Poetry of the New York Group.” Journal of Ukrainian Studies 2, no. 1 (1977): 3-21.

Rubchak, Bohdan. “Homes as Shells: Ukrainian Émigré Poetry.” In New Soil — Old Roots. The Ukrainian Experience in Canada. Ed. Jaroslav Rozumnyj. Winnipeg: Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Canada, 1983, pp. 87-123 (relevant excerpts).

Texts.

Selected poetry by Vasyl Stus, Mykola Rudenko, and Vasyl Ruban.

Critical Reading.

Davies, Ioan. “Prison Writing – Margin and Centre.” In his Writers in Prison. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 3-20.

Stus, Vasyl. Selected Poems. Translated and edited by Jaropolk Lassowsky. Intro. by George Y. Shevelov. Munich: Ukrainian Free University; New York: Larysa and Ulana Celewych-Steciuk Memorial Foundation of the Women's Association for the Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine, 1987.

Swoboda, Victor. “The Evolution of Mykola Rudenko’s Philosophy in His Poetry.” Studia Ucrainica 4 (University of Ottawa Press,1988): 76-84.

Texts.

Kulyk Keefer, Janice. Green Library. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1996.

Reading.

“Panel Discussion: ‘Hyphenated Canadians: The Question of Consciousness’.” Identifications: Ethnicity and the Writer in Canada. Ed. Jars Balan. Edmonton: CIUS, University of Alberta, 1982, pp. 135-56.

Kulyk Keefer, Janice and Jars Balan (interview). In Other Solitudes: Canadian Multicultural Fictions. Eds. Linda Hutcheon and Marion Richmond. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1990, pp. 290-96.

Kulyk Keefer, Janice. “’Coming Across Bones:’ Historiographic Ethnofication: in Writing Ethnicity. Cross-Cultural Consciousness in Canadian and Québécois Literature. Ed. Winfried Siemerling. Toronto ECW Press, 1996, pp. 84-104.

Texts:

Dibrova, Volodymyr. “Birthday.” Trans. Uliana Pasicznyk. Ukrainian Literature. A Journal of Translations. Vol 1. 2004. https://tarnawsky.artsci.utoronto.ca/elul/Ukr_Lit/Vol01/01-03.html .

Reading.

Isajiw, Wsevolod W. “Adaptation and Integration of New Immigrants:
the Fourth Wave of Immigration from Ukraine in Canada, 1991-2001.” In
http://www.infoukes.com/newpathway/Page308.htm

Satzewich, Vic. “The Diaspora and the Challenges of Ukrainian Independence.” In his The Ukrainian Diaspora. London and New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. 190-213.

Course summary.

RECOMMENDED READING

General Reference

Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Ed. Volodymyr Kubijovyč. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1984.

Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine, http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/

Pawliczko, Ann Lencyk.Ukraine and Ukrainians Throughout the World: A Demographic and Sociological Guide to the Homeland and Its Diaspora. University of Toronto Press, 1984.University of Toronto Press, 1994

Published for the Shevchenko Scientific Society by University of Toronto Press, 1994

Multicultural Writers from Antiquity to 1945. A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Eds. Alba Amoia and Bettina L. Knapp. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press, 2002.

The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (Oxford University Press, 1997).

Theory

Cohen, Robin. Global Diasporas. An Introduction. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1997.

Dahlie, Hallvard. Varieties of Exile. The Canadian Experience. Vancouver: U of British Columbia P, 1986.

Davis, Fred. Yearning for Yesterday. A Sociology of Nostalgia. New York: The Free Press and London: Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1979.

Gurr, Andrew. Writers in Exile. The Identity of Home in Modern Literature. Sussex: The Harvester Press and New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1981.

Hall, Stuart. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora.” Identity: Community, Culture, Difference. Ed. Jonathan Rutherford. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1990, pp. 222-237.

Kaplan, Caren. Questions of Travel. Postmodern Discourses of Displacement. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1996.

Knapp, Bettina L. Exile and the Writer. Exoteric and Esoteric Experiences. A Jungian Approach. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State UP, 1991.

Modernism. A Guide to European Literature. 1890-1930. Eds. Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane, Penguin Books, 1991.

Said, Edward. “Reflection on Exile.” In Altogether elsewhere. Writers on Exile. Ed. Marc Robinson. San Diego, New York, London: A Harvest Book, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994, pp. 137-149.

Seidel, Michael. Exile and the Narrative Imagination. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1986.

Tabori, Paul. The Anatomy of Exile. A Semantic and Historical Study. London: Harrap, 1972.

Tucker, Martin. “Introduction.” In Literary Exile in the Twentieth Century. An Analysis and Biographical Dictionary. Ed. Martin Tucker. New York, Westport (Connecticut), London: Greenwood Press, 1991.

Writing ethnicity. Cross-cultural consciousness in Canadian and Quebecois literatur. Ed. Winfried Siemerling, Toronto: ECW Press, 1996.

Ukrainian Displaced Literature

A Hundred Years of Youth = Sto rokiv iunosti: A bilingual anthology of 20th century Ukrainian poetry. Compiled and edited by Olha Luchuk and Michael M. Naydan. Lviv: Litopys, 2000

Yarmarok: Ukrainian Writing in Canada Since the Second World War. Eds. Jars Balan and Yury Klynovy. Edmonton: CIUS, 1987.

The Ukrainian Poets, 1189-1962. Selected and translated into English verse by C.H. Andrusyshen and Watson Kirkconnell. Toronto: Published for the Ukrainian Canadian Committee by University of Toronto Press, 1963.

Balan, Jars. “Ukrainian-Canadian Literature” in The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (Oxford University Press, 1997).

Mandryka, Mykyta. History of Ukrainian Literature in Canada (Winnipeg: Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences, 1968).

In Ukrainian:

About the Prague group www.vesna.org.ua/txt/prosalovav/poeprsh.html

Antolohiia ukrainskoii poezii v Kanadi, 1898-1973. Ed. Iar Slavutych. Edmonton: Slovo, 1975.

Khrestomatiia z Ukrainskoi literatury v Kanadi, 1897 – 2000. Edmonton: Slovo, 2000.

Koordynaty. Antolohiia suchasnoii ukrains’koi poezii na zakhodi. Eds. Bohdan Boichuk and Bohdan T. Rubchak. Suchasnist’, 1969.

Pavlychko, Solomea. Dyskurs modernizmu v ukrainskii literaturi. Kyiv: Lybid’, 1997, pp. 237-78.

Sherekh, Iurii. “Ukrainska emigratsiina literatura v Evropi 1945-1949.” In his Ne dlia ditei. Literaturno-krytychni esei. Proloh, 1964, pp. 226-274;

History of Ukrainian Emigration

Marunchak, Mykhailo. The Ukrainian Canadians: A History. Winnipeg: Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences (UVAN) in Canada, 1982. Second Edition.

The Refugee Experience: Ukrainian Displaced Persons after World War II. Eds. Wsevolod W. Isajiv, Yury Boshyk and Roman Senkus. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1992.

Satzewich, Vic. The Ukrainian Diaspora. London and New York: Routledge, 2002.

Ch. 1. Ukrainians and the concept of diaspora (8-25).

Ch. 2. Emigration and the formation of a labor diaspora (1890-1914) (26-48).

Ch. 3. What kind of Ukrainian are you? Cleavages within the pre-World War II diaspora (49-85).

Ch. 4. The third wave: World War II and the displaced persons (86-106).

Ch. 5. The social organization of the postwar diaspora (107-139).

Ch. 6. Ukraine in the postwar diaspora: exposing human rights abuses (140-164).

Ch. 7. Ukrainians and their sense of victimization (165-189).

Ch. 8. The diaspora and the challenges of Ukrainian independence (190-213).

Istoriia ukrains’koii emihratsii. Ed. B. Lanovyk. Kyiv: Vyshcha shkola, 1997.

Narizhnyi, Symon. Ukrains’ka emihratsiia. Kul’turna pratsia ukrains’koii emihratsii mizh dvoma svitovymy viinamy. 2 vols. Prague, 1942.

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

SLA396H1, Reading in Slavic Studies:
Exile and Displacement in Ukrainian Literature in the 20^th Century (Spring 2006)

Class meets in Alunmni Hall Rm 402, Wednesdays 4:00 to 6:00 PM

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

SLA396H1, Reading in Slavic Studies: Exile and Displacement in Ukrainian Literature in the 20th Century (Spring 2006)

Class meets in Alunmni Hall Rm 402, Wednesdays 4:00 to 6:00 PM

SLA396H1, Reading in Slavic Studies:
Exile and Displacement in Ukrainian Literature in the 20^th Century (Spring 2006)