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Między postulowana inwersja a pożądaną rewizją. Wokół postkolonialnych akcentów w wybranych pracach Mykoły Riabczuka

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Studenna M.

Nowa Krytyka

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2011

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issue 26-27

113-135

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This article is a critical analysis of selected theses by the Ukrainian commentator, translator and literary critic Mykola Riabchuk, who is regarded as a pioneer of post-colonial studies in his home country and whose works have gained considerable popularity in Poland. The first part of this article focuses on the theoretical aspects of post-colonial narrative as a tool to analyze social phenomena in the contemporary humanities. Subsequent sections present the controversy concerning the problem of the post-colonial status of the Central-Eastern European countries, particularly Ukraine. As the author points out, no academic consensus has been reached until now on the perceived construction of Soviet Union as imperialistic and colonial-driven, which furthermore might be the underlying cause limiting the explanatory power of postcolonial categories in this part of the globe. The core part of the article focuses on the confrontation between two concepts – Ukrainian history and its contemporary social problems as seen by Riabchuk on one hand, and the main assumptions of the post-colonial studies on the other. Mykola Riabchuk aims to emphasize the fact that the Ukraine should be perceived as an oppressed victim, on which the negative stereotype was imposed by the colonizer. Riabchuk considers lengthy sovietisation during which Ukrainian culture was substantially destructed as a basis for the relatively limited national discourse on the subject. He perceives weakness and low popularity of the Ukrainian language in the eastern and southern regions of the country as an effect of the denationalization of the proto-Ukrainian substrate which is the result of the russification (although run under the Soviet banner). As post-colonial theorists seem to be in agreement in deeming colonial heritage non-disposable, as well as recognizing the open-ended relation between the colonizer and the colonized, and awareness of being of a hybrid nature, Riabchuk tends to lapse into cultural essentialism. As per the final conclusion of the article, despite the fact that re-reading Ukrainian history from the postcolonial perspective may be promising, it is debatable as to whether Riabchuk’s writing is properly inscribed into the postulated paradigm.

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Olena Berehova, ‘Dialoh kul’tur: obraz inshoho v muzychnomu universumi’ [Dialogue of Cultures: The Image of the Other in the Musical Universe], Kyiv: Institute of Cultural Research, National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, 2020, pp. 304. ISBN 978-966-2241-60-0

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Hysa O.

Muzyka

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2022

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vol. 67

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issue 3

178-183

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Monografia Oleny Berehowej Dialoh kul’tur: obraz inshoho v muzychnomu universumi [Dialog kultur: obraz Innego w muzycznym wszechświecie] została napisana w ramach tematu badań podstawowych Instytutu Kulturoznawstwa Narodowej Akademii Sztuki Ukrainy „Dialog kultur w ponowoczesności: dynamika wyzwań samoorganizacji i globalizacji”. W książce, po raz pierwszy w kulturoznawstwie ukraińskim, podjęto próbę naukowego ujęcia dialogu kultur przez pryzmat podejścia imagologicznego. Materiałem analitycznym monografii była najnowsza twórczość kompozytorów ukraińskich, a także najlepsze przykłady zagranicznej muzyki współczesnej, które dają panoramę głównych gatunków muzycznych (opera, balet, symfonia, śpiew i chór, muzyka kameralna) i tworzą szeroki kontekst intertekstualny. W monografii, na przykładzie konkretnych przypadków dzieł, wykazano, że podejście imagologiczne umożliwia badanie obrazów artystycznych zobiektywizowanych w dziełach sztuki, ujawniając specyfikę figuratywnego postrzegania „Innych” przez różne kultury, ujawniając idee dialogu kulturowego.

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Olena Berehova’s monograph Dialoh kul’tur: obraz inshoho v muzychnomu universumi [Dialogue of Cultures: The Image of the Other in the Musical Universe] was written within the theme of basic research of the Institute of Cultural Studies of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine 'Dialogue of Cultures in Postmodernity: Dynamics of Self-Organization and Globalization Challenges'. In the book, for the first time in Ukrainian culturology, an attempt is made to scientifically comprehend the dialogue of cultures through the prism of an imagological approach. The analytical material of the monograph was the latest Ukrainian composers’ creativity, as well as the best examples of contemporary world music, which are panoramic in the main musical genres (opera, ballet, symphony, vocal and choral, chamber music) and create a broad intertextual and dialogical context. In the monograph on the example of specific art cases it is proved that the imagological approach makes possible the study of artistic images objectified in works of art, revealing the specifics of figurative perception of 'Other' by different cultures, revealing the ideas of cultural dialogue about each other.

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Colonising Poland’s Historiography. Concerning Lenny A. Ureña Valerio’s Breakthrough Study

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Puchalski P.

Dzieje Najnowsze

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2020

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vol. 52

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issue 3

313-325

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The present article assesses Prof. Lenny A. Ureña Valerio scholarly debut in a broader context of the present literature in the post-colonial field. The reviewer pays attention to the breakthrough nature of the analysed book which is one of the first to indicate the fact that the German imperial expansion into the Polish lands in 1840–1920 was closely related to the German colonial enterprise in Africa.

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Niniejszy artykuł ocenia naukowy debiut prof. Lenny A. Ureña Valerio w szerszym kontekście istniejącej literatury z obszaru studiów postkolonialnych. Recenzent zwraca uwagę na przełomowy w swoim zakresie charakter omawianej książki, która jako jedna z pierwszych wskazuje na fakt, iż niemiecka ekspansja imperialna na ziemiach polskich w latach 1840–1920 była ściśle powiązana z działaniami Rzeszy w Afryce.

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Między postulowana inwersja a pożądaną rewizją. Wokół postkolonialnych akcentów w wybranych pracach Mykoły Riabczuka

Olena Berehova, ‘Dialoh kul’tur: obraz inshoho v muzychnomu universumi’ [Dialogue of Cultures: The Image of the Other in the Musical Universe], Kyiv: Institute of Cultural Research, National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, 2020, pp. 304. ISBN 978-966-2241-60-0

Colonising Poland’s Historiography. Concerning Lenny A. Ureña Valerio’s Breakthrough Study