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[M T Znayenko <znayenko@andromeda.rutgers.edu>]

Subject: Special Issue of SEEJ on Contemporary Ukrainian Literature and Cultural
      Identity

The most recent issue of the Slavic and East European Journal (the 50th jubilee 
issue, vol. 50, no.3, Fall 2006), contains a special Forum on Ukraine.

The Forum entitled "Mirrors, Windows and Maps: The Topology of National 
Identity in Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Literature" was organized by Larissa 
Onyshkevych, who served as guest editor of the issue. It comprises of the 
following articles:

-- Introduction (by Maria Zubrytska, Lviv University),
--"Cultural Perception, Mirror Images, and Western Identification in New 
Ukrainian Drama" (by Larissa Zaleska Onyshkevych, Shevchenko Scientific 
Society, USA),
  - "Nativists vs. Westernizers: Problems of Cultural Identity in Ukrainian 
Litrature of the 1990s" (Ola Hnatiuk, Warsaw University),
  - "Ukrainian Avant-Garde Poetry Today: Bu-Ba-Bu and Others" (Michael Naydan, 
Penn State University),
  - "Envisioning Europe: Ruslana's Rhetoric of Identity" (Monash University, 
Australia).

  The issue also contains an article by Valerii Polkovsky on Lexical Changes in 
the Contemporary Ukrainian Language since Independence (1991-2005).

Articles for this Forum developed primarily from presentations at panels and 
symposia sponsored by the Shevchenko Scientific Society (USA) at various 
national and international conferences.

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