Memory, Trauma, and the Maternal: Post-Apocalyptic View of the Chernobyl/Chornobyl/Charnobyl Nuclear Disaster

Chornobyl/Chernobyl/Charnobyl has a symbolic meaning for several generations of east Europeans. It is a city that experienced a disastrous nuclear explosion in 1986 that bequeathed a post-apocalyptic landscape and an eloquent demonstration of the Anthropocene. The epistemological crisis for humanit...

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Main Author: Hanna Chuchvaha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Alberta, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies 2020-10-01
Series:East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies
Online Access:http://www.ewjus.com/index.php/ewjus/article/view/608