'BALFOURIAN SPEECH' AND ANTI-COLONIAL DISCOURSE IN THE UKRAINIAN LITERATURE OT THE 'FIN-DE-SIECLE' PERIOD ('Mowa balfourowska' i dyskurs antykolonialny w ukrainskiej literaturze przelomu XIX/XX wieku)

• Authors: Kupidura Ryszard
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author embarks on a post-colonial analysis of short stories by two 'fin-de-siecle' Ukrainian writers Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky and Mykhailo Hrushevskyi. He scrutinizes the content of utterances by the characters of 'For the Benefit of All' by Kotsiubynsky, and 'Bekh-al'-Dzhuhur' by Hrushevskyi. These utterances are compared to a speech delivered by the former British Prime Minister James Balfour, who openly supported the colonial policy. In the above mentioned short stories the so-called 'Balfourian speech' stands in a stark contrast to the narrated world, which makes them thoroughly anti-colonial.

Keywords

EN

BALFOURIAN SPEECH; HRUSHEVSKYI MYKHAILO; KOTSIUBYNSKYI MYKHAILO; POSTCOLONIAL CRITICS; UKRAINIAN LITERATURE

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Porównania
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 5
• Pages: 157-165
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kupidura Ryszard

• Ryszard Kupidura, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Instytut Filologii Rosyjskiej, al. Niepodleglosci 4, 61-874 Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA079713