TY - GEN T1 - Nikolai Gogol : performing hybrid identity A1 - Ilchuk, Yuliya LA - English PP - Toronto ; Buffalo ; London PB - University of Toronto Press YR - 2021 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1182804527 AB - "One of the great writers of the nineteenth century, Nikolai Gogol was born and raised in Ukraine before he was lionized and canonized in Russia. The ambiguities within his subversive, ironic works are matched by those which surround the debate over his national identity. This book presents a completely new assessment of the problem: rather than adopting the predominant "either/or" perspective - wherein Gogol is seen as either Ukrainian or Russian - it shows how his cultural identity was a product of negotiation with imperial and national cultural codes and values. By examining Gogol's ambivalent self-fashioning, language performance, and textual practices, this book shows how Gogol played with both imperial and local sources of identity and turned his hybridity into a project of subtle cultural resistance. Ilchuk provides a comprehensive account of assimilation and hybridization of Ukrainians in the Russian empire, arguing that Russia's imperial culture has depended on Ukraine and the participation of Ukrainian intellectuals in its development. Ilchuk also introduces innovative computer-assisted methods of textual analysis to demonstrate the palimpsest-like quality of Gogol's texts and national identity."-- OP - 268 CN - PG3335.Z8 I43 2020eb SN - 9781487537876 SN - 1487537875 SN - 9781487537869 SN - 1487537867 SN - 9781487508258 SN - 1487508255 KW - Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, : 1809-1852 : Criticism and interpretation. KW - Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, : 1809-1852 KW - Gogol', Nikolai Vasil'evich, : 1809-1852 : Criticism and interpretation. KW - Ethnicity in literature. KW - National characteristics, Ukrainian, in literature. KW - National characteristics, Russian, in literature. KW - Russians in literature. KW - Ethnicité dans la littérature. KW - Ukrainiens dans la littérature. KW - Russes dans la littérature. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union KW - Russians in literature KW - Ethnicity in literature KW - National characteristics, Russian, in literature KW - National characteristics, Ukrainian, in literature KW - Literary criticism KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Literary criticism. KW - Critiques littéraires. ER -