Suproniuk Oksana

Reception of Hohol’s Creative Heritage in the Works of Slavists and Researchers of Ukrainian Abroad (Based on the Materials of the Fund of the Department of Foreign Ukrainian of Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine)

Abstract: This article is based on research of the book resources of the Department of Foreign Ukrainian Studies at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, and is dedicated to reception of Hohols oeuvre as seen in the works of Slavists and scholars of Ukrainian studies abroad. The base for analysis are scientific concepts relevant to Hohols identification and postcolonial reading of his writings, such as by G. Grabowicz (USA), O. Ilnytskyi (Canada), E. Boianovska (USA), M. Naidan (USA), O. Semenchenko (Great Britain), Yu. Barabash (Russia), P. Savchak and M. Pavlyshyn (Australia), and others. Researchers focus on the idea of Ukrainian identity, and development thereof, in connection with the history of reading and interpreting the |creative legacy of M. Hohol in different historical periods. They support the Ukrainian narrative and present their vision of the writers contribution to the development of modern Ukraine. M. Hohol is a most remarkable writer in the global culture, a Ukrainian by origin, whose creative work has become an important milestone in the development of Ukrainian literature and self-awareness of Ukrainians as a self-sufficient cultural universe. The uniqueness of his creative heritage is that in all historical epochs during the last 160 years (after the writers passing to eternity), he always finds himself at the intersection of pain points of the society and Ukraine-Russia relations, a mirror of which his creative legacy has become. The works of foreign researchers provide an external view on Hohols art and his contribution to the development of contemporary Ukraine. Hohols literary works act as evidence that there exists a self-sufficient Ukraine, as a specific ethnographic area, with its own extensive spiritual experience, and cultural and intellectual traditions. Hohols writings of the Ukrainian cycle are permeated with Ukrainian spirituality and the Ukrainian outlook upon the universe. Both comprehension and introduction of this idea into scientific circulation are important factors in the development of Ukrainian statehood, and a modern, renewed, up-to-date Ukraine. This article proves the urgency of understanding and advertising the Ukrainian narrative of the Hohol studies discourse at the present moment, at the time of Russian aggression in Ukraine, when the trends of de-Ukrainization of Ukraine are remarkably strong, while Russian cultural figures visit Kyiv even today and spread the Soviet and Russian narratives of the writers art.

Keywords: Mykola Hohol, Book collection of the Department of Foreign Ukrainian Studies at VNLU, Ukrainians Abroad, Slavists, Ukrainian Identity, Ukrainian Narrative of Hohol Studies.

  Full-text PDF    https://doi.org/10.15407/bv2020.04.045     Citation

• Suproniuk Oksana (Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine), odudko@ukr.net) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1435-5913

Cite:
Suproniuk Oksana (2020). Reception of Hohol’s Creative Heritage in the Works of Slavists and Researchers of Ukrainian Abroad (Based on the Materials of the Fund of the Department of Foreign Ukrainian of Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine). Bibliotechnyi visnyk, (4) 45-55. (In Ukrainan). doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/bv2020.04.045

References:

1. Andrusiv, S. (1995). Kharakterolohiia ukraintsiv. Natsionalnyi kosmo-psykho-lohos [Characterology of Ukrainians. National cosmo-psycho-logos]. Naukovyi zbirnyk Ukrainskoho Vilnoho Universytetu (UVU. Seriia: Naukovi zbirnyky) (Vol. 17, pp. 132-136). Miunkhen; Lviv, Ukraine. [In Ukrainian].
2. Barabash, Y. U. (2004). Hohol v literaturnii svidomosti ukrainskoho zarubizhzhia (Narysy spryiniattia ta interpretatsii) [Gogol in the literary consciousness of Ukrainian abroad (Essays on perception and interpretation)]. Novi Hoholeznavchi studii, 1 (12), 102-103. [In Ukrainian].
3. Boianovska, Edyta M. (2013). Mykola Hohol: Mizh ukrainskym i rosiiskym natsionalizmom [Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian nationalism]. (Pp. 543-544). Kyiv, Ukraine: Tempora. [In Ukrainian].
4. Hets, Bruno (1952). Ukrainska i rosiiska stykhii u Hoholia [Ukrainian and Russian elements in Gogol] / trans. and afterword by I. Lysyak-Rudnytsky Literaturno-naukovyi zbirnyk. (Vol. 1, pp.163-164). New York, SSHA. [In Ukrainian].
5. Hyrych, I. (2017). Ukrainskyi Kyiv kintsia XIX- pochatku XX stolittia: kulturolohichnyi esei. Vyd. 2-he [Ukrainian Kyiv ofthelate XIX-early XX centuries: culturological essay. View. 2nd, ed.]. Kyiv, Ukraine: Penmen. [In Ukrainian].
6. Hohol, M. V. (2008-2012). Zibrannia tvoriv u semy tomakh [Collection of works in seven volumes]. Kyiv, Ukraine; Naukova dumka. [In Ukrainian].
7. Hrabovych, H. (1994). Hohol i mif Ukrainy [Gogol and the myth of Ukraine]. Suchasnist, 9, 77. [In Ukrainian].
8. Dziuba, I. (1998). Vzaiemodiia dvokh kultur i stereotypy ii retseptsii [The Interaction of Two Cultures and the Stereotypes of its Reception]. Mizh kulturoiu i politykoiu. Kyiv, Ukraine: Vyd-vo «Sfera». [In Ukrainian].
9. Zabuzhko, O. (2012). Planeta polyn: Dovzhenko - Tarkovskyi - fon Trier, abo dyskurs novoho zhakhu [Planet wormwood: Dovzhenko - Tarkovsky - vonTrier, orthe discourse of a new horror]. Z mapy knyh i liudei: zbirka eseistky. Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine. [In Ukrainian].
10. Ilnytskyi, O. (2000). Hohol i postkolonialnyi kontekst [Gogol and the postcolonial context]. Krytyka: mizhnarodnyi ohliad knyzhok i idei. Rik IV, 3 (29), 9. [In Ukrainian].
11. Ermolenko, V. (2019). Voroh ne tut [The enemy is not here]. PENUkraine 12/04/19 [12 kvitnia 2019]. [In Ukrainian].
12. Ermolenko, V. (2018). Rosiiska ideolohiia: sumishi ta ekstremy [Russian ideology: mixtures and extremes]. Plynni ideolohii: idei ta polityka v Evropi XIX-XX stolit. (Pp. 416-451). Kyiv, Ukraine: Dukh i litera. [In Ukrainian].
13. Kovalchuk, O. (1997). «Avtorska spovid» M. Hoholia (svoeridnist bachennia svitu «ukrainskoiu liudynoiu») [«Authors confession» by M. Gogol (originality of the vision of the world «Ukrainian man»)]. Hoholeznavchi studii, 2, 14-15. [In Ukrainian].
14. Kolesnyk, I. (2009). Vstup, abo Ukrainskyi hoholeznavchyi dyskurs. Hoholeznavstvo - iavyshche kulturno-intelektualnoi istorii [Introduction, or Ukrainian Gogol Discourse. Gogol studies - a phenomenon of cultural and intellectual history]. Hohol. Merezhi kulturno-intelektualnykh komunikatsii. (Pp. 19-20). Kyiv, Ukraine. [In Ukrainian].
15. Kraliuk, P. (2016). Ihry Hoholia. Vysnovky [Gogols games. Conclusions]. Podviynyi ahent Mykola Hohol abo pro shcho rozpovidae «Taras Bulba». (Pp. 163-165) Lviv, Ukraine: Vyd-voStaroho Leva. [In Ukrainian].
16. Kulchytskyi, O. (1956). Profesor Ivan Mirchuk-filosof ukrainskoi dukhovnosty [Professor Ivan Mirchuk-philosopher of Ukrainian spirituality]. Vyzvolnyi shliakh, 10/34 (108), 1169-1171. [In Ukrainian]; Mirchuk, I. (1994). Istoria ukrainskoi kultury. Ukrayinskyi Vilnyi universytet. Seriia: Pidruchnyky. (Vol. 14/15, pp. 294-304). Miunkhen; Lviv, Ukraine. [In Ukrainian].
17. Melnychenko, V. (2010). Ukrainska dusha Moskvy (Mykhailo Maksymovych, Mykhailo Shchepkin, Osyp Bodianskyi, Mykola Hohol) [Ukrainian soul of Moscow (Mikhail Maksimovich, Mikhail Shchepkin, Osip Bodyansky, Nikolai Gogol). Moskva, Russia; OLMA Media Hrup. [In Ukrainian].
18. Naidan, Mykhailo, M. (2017). Yakshcho zahuhlyte Hoholia, znaidete «Gogolia», ale ne «Hoholia»: rekolonizatsiia ukrainskoho pysmennyka [If you google Gogol, you will find «Gogolia», but not «Hoholia»: recolonization of the Ukrainian writer]. Vid Hoholia do Andrukhovycha: literaturoznavchi esei. (Pp. 10-12). Lviv, Ukraine: Piramida. [In Ukrainian].
19. Ot redaktcii. (2001). N. V. Gogol. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii i pisem v dvadtcati trekh tomakh [From the editors. N. V. Gogol. Complete works and letters in twenty-three volumes.]. (Vol. 1, pp. 21-22). Moscow, Russia: Nasledie. 21-22. [In Russian].
20. Savchak, P. (1999). Khto boitsia Nikolaia Hoholia? Do pytannia «maloi literatury» [Who is afraid of Nikolai Gogol? On the issue of «small literature»]. Literaturoznavstvo: Materialy IV konhresu Mizhnarodnoi asotsiatsii ukrainistiv (Odesa, 26-29 serpnia 1999 r.). (Vol. 1). Odesa, Ukraine: Knyha. [In Ukrainian].
21. Semenchenko, O. (2009). Mykola Hohol yak providnyk ukrainsikoi kultury u svit. Ch. 1. [Mykola Gogol as a leader of Ukrainian culture in the world. Part 1]. Radio Svoboda, 2.04.2009. [In Ukrainian].
22. Skuratovskii, V. (1997). Na poroge kak by dvoinoho bytiia (iz nabliudenii nad mirami Gogolia [On the threshold of a kind of double existence (from observations of Gogols worlds)]. Hoholeznavchi studii, 2. 73-74. [In Russian].
23. (2009). Skurativskyi Vadym pro znachennia Hoholia [Vadim Skuratovsky on the significance of Gogol (2009)]. BBC Ukrainian. Com. [In Ukrainian].
24. Terts, A. (Siniavskii Andrei). (1992). V teni Gogolia [In the shadow of Gogol]. Terts A. (Siniavskii Andrei). Sobr. soch. v dvukh tomakh. (Vol. 2, pp. 267-268). Moscow. [In Russian].
25. Shevelov, Y. U. (2000). Moskva, Marosieika [Moscow, Maroseika]. Z istorii nezakinchenoi viiny (Pp. 69-70). Kyiv, Ukraine: Kyevo-Mohylianska akademiia. [In Ukrainian].