Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children's Literature

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-97649-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture

Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children’s Literature showcases the work of prominent scholars of children’s literature from Ukraine and the diaspora as it traces the history of books written, marketed for, and circulating among young people since the rise of Ukraine’s nationhood in the nineteenth century. This book encompasses a full range of texts and genres (e.g., fiction, nonfiction, poetry, picturebooks, graphic novels), with special attention given to the most important authors and works as defined by aesthetics (“literary excellence”), popularity, or historical and cultural significance. In its focus on ideology and historical context, the collection takes an interdisciplinary and transnational approach. It places titles and trends in broader context, considering the socio-political situation, changing taste, and the history of institutions that shape the production and reception of children’s literature. The collection addresses folklore and the beginnings of a distinct tradition of Ukrainian children’s literature produced in the nineteenth century; the role played by children’s literature in the maintenance of the Ukrainian literary tradition during the Soviet era; and the flourishing Ukrainian book market, with the appearance of numerous new genres and forms, and the growing significance of Ukrainian books around the world. The collection highlights the importance of familiarizing non-Ukrainian students and scholars of children’s literature with the richness of the country’s literary history and cultural distinctiveness. Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children’s Literature is intended primarily for scholars of children’s literature and culture, including specialists in the fields of literary studies, education, and Slavic studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

¿Wietlicki, Mateusz

Swietlicki, Mateusz

Ulanowicz, Anastasia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Toward the World Across Ages, Nations, and Genders (Tamara Hundorova)

Introduction to Ukrainian Children’s Literature (Mateusz Swietlicki and Anastasia Ulanowicz)

PART I - The Sources of Ukrainian Children’s Literature

1. Fairy Fales, Folk Traditions, and the Formation of Ukrainian National Identity (Katarzyna Jakubowska-Krawczyk)

2. Classics for Children and Crossovers into Children’s Literature: Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, and Lesia Ukrainka (Mateusz Swietlicki and Anastasia Ulanowicz)

PART II - Ukrainian Children’s Literature in the Century of Repressions

3. Moms at Factories: Ukrainian Children’s Literature of the 1920s and 1930s (Snizhana Zhygun)

4. Russophone Ukrainian Children’s Literature: To the Roots of the Phenomenon (Anna Boginskaya)

5. Children of Genocide and War: Depictions of Post-War Soviet Ukrainian Childhood in the Works of Vsevolod Nestaiko and Hryhir Tiutiunnyk (Mateusz Swietlicki)

6. “What is Your Identity?”: Ukrainian Idea in Diasporic Children’s Literature (Maryna Vardanian)

PART III - The Present and Future of Ukrainian Literature for Young People

7. Contemporary Ukrainian Children’s Poetry and Prose: An Overview (Tetiana Kachak and Tetyana Blyznyuk)

8. The Coming of Age of Ukrainian Young Adult Literature After 1991 (Halyna Pavlyshyn)

9. Ukraine’s Cultural Ambassadors: Contemporary Ukrainian Picturebooks (Anastasia Ulanowicz)

10. Memories of the Future: Ukrainian Children’s Literature about War (Aliona Yarova and Björn Sundmark)

Afterword: Evelyn Arizpe

Über Autor(innen)

Mateusz Swietlicki is an associate professor at the University of Wroclaw’s Institute of English Studies (Poland). His most recent book, Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory (Routledge, 2023), examines the transnational entanglements of Canada and Ukraine.

Anastasia Ulanowicz is an associate professor of children’s literature at the University of Florida (USA). She is the author of Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature (Routledge, 2013), which received the Children’s Literature Association Book Award in 2015.