Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma

This book explores transitional post—Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty—first century. The main themes in the book are postcolonial traumas in relation to past empires and old historiographical narratives; post—totalitarian consciousness, which is characterized by sociocultural ruptures, postcolonial resentment, and intergenerational crises; and post—memory as a means of overcoming historical and familial traumas. Against the backdrop of the Chornobyl ca...