This year’s ASEEES Convention will include a panel discussing Tamara Hundorova’s new book, The Post-Chornobyl Library. Dr. Hundorova will be joined on the panel by Vitaly Chernetsky, Ola Hnatiuk, Yuliya Ilchuk, and Oleh Kotsyuba, moderated by George G. Grabowicz. (You must be an ASEEES attendee to attend this event.)

The Post-Chornobyl Library (2019) by Tamara Hundorova interprets the Ukrainian literary landscape of the 1990s as a carnivalesque space of postmodernist games that reveal and legitimize the imagination, privacy, and subjectivity of the post-totalitarian subject. The study discusses the subversion and rewriting of Soviet cultural codes and populist taboos in Ukrainian literature. The image of the post-apocalyptic library becomes the main metaphor of the postmodern condition representing the rhizomatic body of culture through a set of new authors, practices and minicanons. The book approaches the trauma of Chornobyl, which caused severe socio-cultural, psychological, and aesthetic deformations in the post-Soviet space, as the symbolic midpoint of this condition. Co-sponsored by the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard and the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US.

When: Saturday, November 23, 2:00 p.m.
Where: ASEEES Convention, San Francisco Marriott Marquis, Floor: 4, Pacific D, 780 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103