aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- Re: [aaus-list] Poltava 2009

[rromanch@mailer.fsu.edu]

Quoting "Rubchak, Bohdan" <kalush@uic.edu>:
> I really hope that a Russian wit does not take Mr. Riabchuk's unfortunate
> comparison a tiny step further and say that even as Columbus introduced
> historical time in the Americas, Catherine inroduced it in Ukraine, and by
> oppressing the carefree, tribal, singing and dancing Cossacks, made
> possible the birth of Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, and last but by no
> means least, Mykola Riabchuk.

Dear Bohdan,
A (Little) Russian wit already made a similar argument, as early as the 
1830s: see Roman Koropeckyj's and my "Ukraine in Blackface: Performance 
and Representation in Gogol'?s Dikan'ka Tales, Book 1," Slavic Review 
62.3 (Fall 2003): 525-48.
All best, Robert Romanchuk

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