Ukrainian Otherlands: Diaspora, Homeland, and Folk Imagination in the Twentieth Century [Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World]. by Khanenko-Friesen, Natalia - 2015

University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. New Book. Paperback. 290 pp. 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… Read More

Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 2015. Paperback. New. 272 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.00 inches.

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Paperback / softback. New. Exploring a rich array of folk traditions that developed in the Ukrainian diaspora and in Ukraine during the twentieth century, Ukrainian Otherlands is an innovative exploration of modern ethnic identity and the deeply felt (but sometimes deeply different) understandings of ethnicity in homeland and diaspora.