Ukrainian Otherlands: Diaspora, Homeland, and Folk Imagination in the Twentieth Century - Brossura

Khanenko-Friesen, Natalia

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0299303446 ISBN 13: 9780299303440

Casa editrice: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Ukrainian Otherlands is an innovative exploration of modern ethnic identity, focused on diaspora/homeland understandings of each other in Ukraine and in Ukrainian ethnic communities around the globe. Exploring a rich array of folk songs, poetry and stories, trans-Atlantic correspondence, family histories, and rituals of homecoming and hosting that developed in the Ukrainian diaspora and Ukraine during the twentieth century, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen asserts that many important aspects of modern ethnic identity form, develop, and reveal themselves not only through the diaspora’s continued yearning for the homeland, but also in a homeland’s deeply felt connection to its diaspora. Yet, she finds each group imagines the otherland” and ethnic identity differently, leading to misunderstandings between Ukrainians and their ethnic-Ukrainian brothers and sisters” abroad.
            An innovative exploration of the persistence of vernacular culture in the modern world,Ukrainian Otherlands, amply informed by theory and fieldwork, will appeal to those interested in folklore, ethnic and diaspora studies, modernity, migration, folk psychology, history, and cultural anthropology.

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L'autore:

Natalia Khanenko-Friesen is an associate professor of cultural anthropology, head of the Department of Religion and Culture at St. Thomas More College, and a founder of the Oral History Program and Personal Sources Archives at the Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage, all at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the founding editor of theEngaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Learning.

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• Editore: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0299303446
• ISBN 13: 9780299303440
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 263