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Ukrainian Otherlands: Diaspora, Homeland, and Folk Imagination in the Twentieth Century

Ukrainian Otherlands: Diaspora, Homeland, and Folk Imagination in the Twentieth Century

Khanenko-Friesen, Natalia

Paperback

Series: Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World

Mythology & FolkloreImmigration & RefugeesRussian History

ISBN10: 0299303446
ISBN13: 9780299303440
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Jul 27 2015
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens to ethnic communities when they have two homelands to love-one real and immediate, the other distant but treasured in the heart and imagination?

Ukrainian Otherlands is an innovative exploration of modern ethnic identity, focused on diaspora/homeland understandings of each other in Ukraine and in Ukrainian ethnic communities around the globe. Exploring a rich array of folk songs, poetry and stories, trans-Atlantic correspondence, family histories, and rituals of homecoming and hosting that developed in the Ukrainian diaspora and Ukraine during the twentieth century, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen asserts that many important aspects of modern ethnic identity form, develop, and reveal themselves not only through the diaspora's continued yearning for the homeland, but also in a homeland's deeply felt connection to its diaspora. Yet, she finds each group imagines the otherland and ethnic identity differently, leading to misunderstandings between Ukrainians and their ethnic-Ukrainian brothers and sisters abroad.

An innovative exploration of the persistence of vernacular culture in the modern world, Ukrainian Otherlands, amply informed by theory and fieldwork, will appeal to those interested in folklore, ethnic and diaspora studies, modernity, migration, folk psychology, history, and cultural anthropology.

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