A Reading of Alexander Motyl’s Fall River Through the Lenses of Bordermemories

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A Reading of Alexander Motyl’s Fall River Through the Lenses of Bordermemories

Journal Title: Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue

Abstract

This paper examines the concepts of borderlands, borderscapes, and bordermemories as cultural discursive practices that have been extensively presented and analyzed in an increasing number of theoretical works in Border Studies. Contemporary American Ukrainian writers have made attempts to introduce their hybrid experience and include it into American culture. One of them is Alexander J. Motyl, whose novel Fall River (2014) is analyzed as an example of border writing. The novel is based on the author’s narrative memory, rooted in his mother’s stories about Ukraine and their family members’ crossings of borders in the interwar period and belonging to two cultures, Ukrainian and American, that shaped their identities.

Authors and Affiliations

T. P. Ostapchuk

Keywords

borderscape; borderland; border zones; memories; American Ukrainian national minority

EP ID EP517784
DOI 10.18523/kmhj150389.2018-5.83-95
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