Paradigms of Awakening in Lemko Literature

• In Event: National Awakeners in Carpathian Rus’

Abstract

This presentation will survey awakening paradigms in Lemko literature. Starting from the nineteenth-century concept of awakening described in detail (by Elaine Rusinko, among others) in Carpatho-Rusyn Studies using Alexander Dukhnovych, Watral analyzes the role of literature in building and maintaining identity. By focusing on two Lemko writers — Vladymir Khyliak (a nineteenth-century writer) and Petro Trokhanovskii / Murianka (a contemporary writer), who, in a unique way for Carpatho-Rusyn literature, recreates, updates, and implements the nineteenth-century model into contemporary Lemko identity.

Author

• Marta Watral, Jagiellonian U (Poland)