Journal article

Authors list: Hundorova, Tamara

Publication year: 2022

Pages: 341-34+

Journal: Osteuropa

Volume number: 72

Issue number: 6-8

ISSN: 0030-6428

eISSN: 2509-3444

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.35998/oe-2022-0170

Publisher: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag

Abstract: 
The Donbass has played a central role in Serhii Zhadan's work from the very start. In his most recent novel Orphanage (Ukr. - Internat, 2017), as well as in Voroshilovgrad (Ukr. - Voroshylovhrad, 2010), Ukraine's eastern borderland provides both setting and subject. Zhadan depicts it as a territory of emptiness, a geographical and historical space of transition - but not as a no-man's-land. Real and mental migration mould this region, and that is what makes it a genuinely European territory. Defending it as one's own territory - this literary message from 2010 has taken on a very concrete and extremely urgent meaning twelve years later.

Harvard Citation style: Hundorova, T. (2022) Heterotopia and One's Own Territory The Donbass in the Work of Serhii Zhadan, Osteuropa : Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsfragen des Ostens, 72(6-8), pp. 341-34+. https://doi.org/10.35998/oe-2022-0170

APA Citation style: Hundorova, T. (2022). Heterotopia and One's Own Territory The Donbass in the Work of Serhii Zhadan. Osteuropa : Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsfragen des Ostens. 72(6-8), 341-34+. https://doi.org/10.35998/oe-2022-0170