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- Ukrainian Otherlands: Diaspora, Homeland, and Folk Imagination in the Twentieth Century
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
What happens to ethnic communities when they have two homelands to loveāone real and immediate, the other distant but treasured in the heart and imagination?
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.
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- 1. Separation: Songs of Departure
- pp. 23-44
- 2. Mediating Absence in Homeland
- pp. 45-72
- 3. Constructing Longing in Diaspora
- pp. 73-98
- 4. Enveloping Distance
- pp. 99-126
- 5. Imagining Kinship in Diaspora
- pp. 127-154
- 6. Homecoming
- pp. 155-184
- 7. Into the Twenty-First Century
- pp. 185-212
- Epilogue: The Folk Connection
- pp. 213-220
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299303433
Related ISBN(s)
9780299303440
MARC Record
OCLC
914028166
Pages
279
Launched on MUSE
2015-07-19
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015