"...This Is Actually Incursion and Stranglehold...'': Russian Empire in the Reception of Ivan Franko
Journal Title: Вісник Житомирського державного університету імені Івана Франка - Year 2017, Vol 85, Issue 1
Abstract
The Post-Soviet Ukrainian literature offers a number of studies, which had not approved methodological strategies regarding the creative work of Ivan Franko. Postcolonial studies over the creative work of Ivan Franko also represent Tamara Hundorova, Gregory Grabowicz, Yaroslav Hrycak. The researches of these scientists often use postmodern deconstruction that sometimes leads to the inherently biased, cosmopolitan over reading of Franko's textuality. The distinctive is the tradition of national oriented position of interpretation of heritage of Kamenyar. There are studies of Ivan Denysyuk, Taras Salyga, Roman Holod, Yaroslav Harasym, Peter Ivanyshyn and others. The proposed studies will focus on the publication "Whiff of Spring in Russia", which seems fundamental to understanding of the thinking of the Russian Empire in Franko's reception. Ivan Franko's models are paradoxical in its ambivalence image of Russia, which on the one hand seeks to European ideals fundamental of which is humanism and democracy, on the other is the state of Asian type that practicing tyranny on its own people and also the colonization policy of conquest in relation to the other ethnic groups. A special role in this dilemma belongs to the national intelligentsia. "Whiff of Spring in Russia" by Franko is a peculiar conclusion of its own attitude to the Russian Empire, its intellectuals, determinations, which attributes are skepticism and irony. Considering the Russian Empire from the Crimean War to the Japanese War the publicist diagnoses dissociation between Europe (democracy, freedom of speech) and Asia (despotism) that has been shown by Russian liberalism. Ivan Franko points to the arbitrariness of the Russian officials, the inertia of the Russian intelligentsia and total indoctrinate Russian people with ideas of patriotism that turns into a national fanaticism, which is immanent idea of "Russian world", "orthodoxy" and intolerance to other people (''chocks", ''hoholy"). While reading Franko's texts every person feels catastrophic freezing time because all the paraphernalia of Russian world remained unchanged in the XXI century. This is what determines the need for the proposed research. After all, Ivan Franko's view as a man of late XIX early XX century on Russia is a modern view of Ukrainian intellectual of the XXI century.
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O. O. Yurchuk
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