A Reading of Alexander Motyl’s Fall River Through the Lenses of Bordermemories

This paper examines the concepts of borderlands, borderscapes, and bordermemories as cultural discursive practices that have been extensively presented and analyzed in an increasing number of theoretical works in Border Studies. Contemporary American Ukrainian writers have made attempts to introduce...

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Main Author:	Tetiana Ostapchuk
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy 2018-11-01
Series:	Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal
Subjects:	borderscape borderland border zones memories american ukrainian national minority minority ukraine ukrainian
Online Access:	http://kmhj.ukma.edu.ua/article/view/150389/149531

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spelling	doaj-8c9b0f17be444533b4ba0afe39bce7f82020-11-25T04:09:01ZengNational University of Kyiv-Mohyla AcademyKyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal2313-48952018-11-015839510.18523/kmhj150389.2018-5.83-95A Reading of Alexander Motyl’s Fall River Through the Lenses of BordermemoriesTetiana Ostapchuk0Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Institute of Foreign Languages and LiteraturesThis paper examines the concepts of borderlands, borderscapes, and bordermemories as cultural discursive practices that have been extensively presented and analyzed in an increasing number of theoretical works in Border Studies. Contemporary American Ukrainian writers have made attempts to introduce their hybrid experience and include it into American culture. One of them is Alexander J. Motyl, whose novel Fall River (2014) is analyzed as an example of border writing. The novel is based on the author’s narrative memory, rooted in his mother’s stories about Ukraine and their family members’ crossings of borders in the interwar period and belonging to two cultures, Ukrainian and American, that shaped their identities.http://kmhj.ukma.edu.ua/article/view/150389/149531borderscapeborderlandborder zonesmemoriesamerican ukrainian national minorityminorityukraineukrainian
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title	A Reading of Alexander Motyl’s Fall River Through the Lenses of Bordermemories
title_short	A Reading of Alexander Motyl’s Fall River Through the Lenses of Bordermemories
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publisher	National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
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issn	2313-4895
publishDate	2018-11-01
description	This paper examines the concepts of borderlands, borderscapes, and bordermemories as cultural discursive practices that have been extensively presented and analyzed in an increasing number of theoretical works in Border Studies. Contemporary American Ukrainian writers have made attempts to introduce their hybrid experience and include it into American culture. One of them is Alexander J. Motyl, whose novel Fall River (2014) is analyzed as an example of border writing. The novel is based on the author’s narrative memory, rooted in his mother’s stories about Ukraine and their family members’ crossings of borders in the interwar period and belonging to two cultures, Ukrainian and American, that shaped their identities.
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A Reading of Alexander Motyl’s Fall River Through the Lenses of Bordermemories

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