Kharkiv - A War City

Titel: Kharkiv - A War City : A Collection of Essays from 2022–2024 / Viktoriia Grivina
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Veröffentlicht: Hannover : ibidem, 2025
Umfang: 110 Seiten ; 21 cm, 200 g
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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mehrbändiges Werk:
Ukrainian Voices ; 77
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Andere Ausgaben: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe
ISBN: 9783838219882 ; 3838219880

This unique collection of essays offers a glimpse into life in and around Kharkiv during the first two years of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A Kharkiv native, Vikoriia Grivina reflects on living in a city where days are full of poetry readings and gallery openings, while nights are saturated with air raids and explosions.

The chronicle of everyday life is layered with inquiries into the urban history and mythology of the 20th-century Kharkiv, a look at the city's decolonial processes, new activist communities, and also the re-discovery of the 1920s literary movement known as the Ukrainian Executed Renaissance. The collection also comprises a fictional story that explores some of the darker, irrational fears and imaginations of urban dwellers during war.