aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] Re: Rusyn language

[Robert DeLossa <radelo@earthlink.net>]

Title: Re: Rusyn language

Shanovni AAUSivtsi:

There has been some discussion off-list about the Rusyn language posting recently with a request for "clarification" of the Rusyn issue. For those who wish more information on this subject, there are several sources that can be consulted on the question of whether the language and ethnos centered in Presov, Slovakia and stretching into the Hungarian-Ukrainian frontier is "Carpatho-Ukrainian"--far western Ukrainians speaking a dialect of Ukrainian--or "Rusyn"--an autochthonous ethnos with its own language. The first is an overview of the political and scholarly issues, the second is a standard overview of the national awakening in the region (decried by some as being excessively pro-Rusyn, but it should be noted that its author has done more work on the subject than anyone else in English), and the third is a memoir-based analysis from a Carpatho-Ukrainian diplomat who  discusses the history and political issues on the ground as they were taking place:

Smith, Raymond A. "Indigenous and Diaspora Elites and the Return of Carpatho-Ruthenian Nationalism, 1989-1992." Harvard Ukrainian Studies 21(1/2) June 1997: 141-60.

Magocsi, Paul Robert. The Shaping of a National Identity: Subcarpathian Rus', 1848-1948. Cambridge, MA: HUP, 1978.

Shandor, Vincent. Carpatho-Ukraine in the Twentieth Century: A Political and Legal History. Cambridge, MA: HURI/HUP, 1997.

Regards,

Rob DeLossa