Published: 2023-12-29

Cultural and Civilizational Coordinates of Ukraine in Contemporary Polish Literary Reportage: Ryszard Kapuściński’s „Empire", Jacek Hugo-Bader’s „White Fever", Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz’s „Zabić smoka" [„To Kill the Dragon"]

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Section: Światy non-fiction
https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2023.32.13

Abstract

Olesya Nakhlik’s article brings an analysis of Ukraine’s identity image and its civilizational choices in accounts,
or reportages, by three Polish reporters, Ryszard Kapuściński, Jacek Hugo-Bader and Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-
-Moskalewicz. These literary reportages show a 30-year perspective of shaping the Ukrainian country and society in the context of its recent history, from revealing the existence of post-Soviet inertia on the remnants
of Soviet self-identification in the new economic and political realities after 1991 in Imperium (The Empire),
through the shaping by Ukrainians of their own eclectic identity in the difficult conditions of ethnic, linguistic
and religious diversity in The White Fever, to reflection on the reasons for the (un)successful attempts at a sharp revision of postcolonial views and landmarks during the Orange Revolution and later the Euromaidan resulting in the dramatic events of the Russian military aggression in 2014 with the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in Zabić smoka. Ukraińskie rewolucje [To Slay the Dragon. Ukrainian Revolutions]. Admittedly, the issues thus raised would merit separate scholarly considerations, because, despite the Ukrainian editions of these collections of reportages, they are now rarely discussed by Ukrainian literary scholars, while Polish scholars, in numerous dissertations, focus primarily on the image of post-Soviet Russia, while typically placing the Ukrainian territories in the broader context of considerations devoted to the contemporary situation of the republics of the former Soviet Union.

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Nakhlik, O. (2023). Cultural and Civilizational Coordinates of Ukraine in Contemporary Polish Literary Reportage: Ryszard Kapuściński’s „Empire", Jacek Hugo-Bader’s „White Fever", Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz’s „Zabić smoka" [„To Kill the Dragon"]. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 32(2), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2023.32.13

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Vol. 32 No. 2 (2023)
Published: 2023-03-29


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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