Home

Home Schedule
Conferences Round Tables
All-Ukrainian Competition of Students Works Annual Seminar for History Teachers Study - Trip"Teaching the Holocaust - Perspectives and Approaches", GHWK, Berlin Study - Trip "History of the Holocaust in Ukraine and Poland" Study - Trip “The Fate of Jewish Communities of Ukraine and France: A Comparison“ Educational Fellowship at Yad Vashem Authority Teaching Materials against Antisemitism, Discrimination and Xenophobia (OCSE/ODIHR) Other projects and completed projects
Information-pedagogical bulletin "Lessons of the Holocaust" Scholarly Journal "Holocaust and modernity" (2005-...) Bulletin "Holocaust: Contemporary Research" Scholarly publications Educational publications Library of the Holocaust Memoirs Publications of the project "Connecting Memory"
Our Staff Contacts
Commemoration Genocide of the Roma of Ukraine Babyn Yar No Child History Kyiv Stones
Book announcements Catalog Online

Monolatii, Ivan. Overcome grief. Mnemonic figures of (non)state literature. Ivano-Frankivsk: Lileya-NV, 2020. - 256 p.

insidethegatesIn his book, historian Ivan Monolatii highlights the "mnemonic figures" - literary images through which Ukrainian writers of the 1930s-1980s, both from Soviet Ukraine and the diaspora, described the Ukrainian experience of twentieth-century history. Considering fiction as a space for creating national memory, the study continues the author's previous historical and literary research From Donetsk to Przemysl. How Modern Literature "remembers" Ukrainian Cities (Ivano-Frankivsk: Lileya-NV, 2019), which was previously reviewed by Krytyka (p. 11-12, 2019). Monolatii titled the new book Overcome Grief, reworking the Latin expression vae victis, "woe to the vanquished", because, according to the author, to comprehend grief is to overcome it.

The book is divided into eleven chapters, which present eleven pairs of "mnemonic figures" of Ukrainian literature, chosen according to the subject matter and time of writing of the prose works.

The review shows that the sequence of internally connected periods of Kysylyn's history is a sequence of decreasing levels of influence that emanated from it. They were extremely limited by the harsh anti-Ukrainian policies of the Second Polish Republic and the USSR and the Ukrainian state's indifference to its own territories in the last two decades.

Announcements

More

Latest News

More

Top