"Ukrainian Erotomaniac Fictions: First Postindependence Wave | Literature

Ukrainian Erotomaniac Fictions explores the aggressive sexualization of the Ukrainian cultural mainstream after the collapse of the USSR as a counter-reaction to the Soviet state's totalitarian repressive politics of the body. While the book's introduction includes concise sections on such pornified cultural forms as advertising mass media visual art and film its major focus is on textual production that has contributed significantly to the literary explosion in Ukraine which began in the 1990s. Drawing on cultural postcolonial feminist and gender theories the book examines transgressive potentials of the erotic under postcolonial postcommunist and post-totalitarian conditions. It offers insight into the convoluted dialectics between the imported conventions of Western porno-chic and the received oppressive Soviet gender and sexual ideologies. Within a broad historical and cultural framework the study considers writers' engagements in dialogues with their own tradition and colonial legacy as well as with a variety of transcultural flows. By bringing together diverse erotomaniac fictions Maryna Romanets charts the ways in which they are embedded in the processes of Ukraine's cultural decolonization. |Ukrainian Erotomaniac Fictions: First Postindependence Wave | Literature