Travesty, Transgression, and Mimicry in Ukrainian Literature

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The panel will focus on the mechanisms of mimicry, cross-dressing, travesty, and disguise in modern Ukrainian literature. The first two presentations will analyze the colonial mimicry in Ukrainian literature of the pre-Romantic and Romantic eras: in Istoriia rusov (a polemical work disguised as a chronicle) and in the large body of Ukrainian literature written in Russian and in the comical stylistic register of Ukrainian vernacular. The third presentation will explore the devices of disguise in Ivan Franko’s prose which mask characters’ transgressive behavior.

Sub Unit

• Literature: 19th Century

Chair

• Maxim Tarnawsky, U of Toronto (Canada)

Papers

• Mimicry in Istoriia rusiv: Historiographic, Polemical, and Novelistic 'Garbs' - Taras Koznarsky, U of Toronto (Canada)

• The Colonial Masquerade: Cross-Dressing as a Form of Subversion - Tamara Hundorova, National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine)

• Franko's Masks of Transgressive Innocence - Maxim Tarnawsky, U of Toronto (Canada)

Discussant

• Volodymyr Sklokin, Ukrainian Catholic U (Ukraine)