The guest of the fifth episode of the Decolonisation series is Dr Uilleam Blacker, a scholar of Ukrainian and East European culture and one of the prominent translators of Ukrainian literature into English. In this episode, Dr Blacker and Anastasiia Marushevska, editor-in-chief of Ukraїner International and co-founder of PR Army, explore how the multi-layered colonial influence has been reflected in Ukrainian literature throughout history.
In this episode, Dr Blacker explores the dual identities of Ukrainian authors under Russian imperial and Soviet rule, contrasts the colonial themes in the works of Mykola Hohol (known as Nikolai Gogol) and Franz Kafka, and discusses how differing cultural peripheries uniquely shaped Ukrainian writers’ anti-colonial perspectives.
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