In an analysis of the cultural experience in Ukraine’s eastern borderlands, Zaharchenko portrays the region’s many frontiers as elements of a natural and complex continuum. She roots this
approach in literary analysis, focusing on the younger generation of writers in the vibrant city of Kharkiv. After the Maidan upraising and in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war, it is
becoming increasingly clear that there is no such thing as a Russian southeast of Ukraine, she argues, and never has been. As in the south, many residents of East Ukraine have nurtured a
distinctive regional identity that is now decisive for Ukraine’s next steps as a country. Distributed in the US by Books International Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR
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