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Author Ilchuk, Yuliya, author.

Title Nikolai Gogol : performing hybrid identity / Yuliya Ilchuk.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 268 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Negotiation of Ukrainian Identities in the Russian Empire -- Gogol's Self-Fashioning and Performance of Identity in the 1830s -- Hybrid Language and Narrative Performance in Evenings on a Farm near Dikan'ka -- Heteroglossia, Speech Masks, and the Synthesis of Languages -- Gogol's Texts as Palimpsest: Taras Bulba and Dead Souls -- The Posthumous Publications and Translations of Gogol's Texts.
Summary "One of the great writers of the nineteenth century, Nikolai Gogol was born and raised in Ukraine before he was lionized and canonized in Russia. The ambiguities within his subversive, ironic works are matched by those which surround the debate over his national identity. This book presents a completely new assessment of the problem: rather than adopting the predominant "either/or" perspective - wherein Gogol is seen as either Ukrainian or Russian - it shows how his cultural identity was a product of negotiation with imperial and national cultural codes and values. By examining Gogol's ambivalent self-fashioning, language performance, and textual practices, this book shows how Gogol played with both imperial and local sources of identity and turned his hybridity into a project of subtle cultural resistance. Ilchuk provides a comprehensive account of assimilation and hybridization of Ukrainians in the Russian empire, arguing that Russia's imperial culture has depended on Ukraine and the participation of Ukrainian intellectuals in its development. Ilchuk also introduces innovative computer-assisted methods of textual analysis to demonstrate the palimpsest-like quality of Gogol's texts and national identity."-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852.
Criticism and interpretation.
Ethnicity in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
National characteristics, Ukrainian, in literature.
National characteristics, Ukrainian, in literature.
National characteristics, Russian, in literature.
National characteristics, Russian, in literature.
Russians in literature.
Russians in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Ilchuk, Yuliya. Nikolai Gogol. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2020 1487508255 9781487508258 (OCoLC)1146571751
ISBN 9781487537876 (EPUB)
1487537875 (EPUB)
9781487537869 (PDF)
1487537867 (PDF)
9781487508258 (hardcover)
1487508255 (hardcover)