This book is a product of personal and collective trauma, and a reflection of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War. It compiles narratives, shared by Olga Khomenko’s family members, friends, and former students, over the first two years of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The impetus for this endeavor was an interview of the author for Japanese media in early 2022, which revealed a significant knowledge gap about Ukrainian history and culture. Driven by a deep sense of responsibility, Khomenko wrote this book to amplify the voice of Ukrainians and their experiences in this war.
Olga Khomenko
Dr Olga Khomenko is a CARA/British Academy Fellow at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford. Olga studied Japanese and international history with special emphases on Eastern Asia and Eastern Europe in Kyiv and Tokyo, worked at the Ukrainian News agency UNIAN as well as the Ukrainian Embassy in Tokyo, and taught at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv School of Economics as well as at Kyiv-Mohyla Business School. Khomenko was a Fulbright Scholar at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and held fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, International Research Center of Japanese Studies, Vienna University, and Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. She is the author of Transnational history of Ukraine (Gunzosha 2024), Ukrainians beyond Borders (Gunzosha 2022), From Ukraine with Love (Gunzosha 2014) and co-editor of A Short Anthology of Contemporary Ukrainian Literature (Gunzosha 2005).
Hiroaki Kuromiya
Dr Hiroaki Kuromiya is Emeritus Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington.
14.03.2025 Ukraine: Literatur zwischen Angriffskrieg, Widerstand und Hoffnung
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| Lieferzeit | Lieferzeit 2-3 Werktage. |
| Vorwort von | Hiroaki Kuromiya |
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| Seitenzahl | 180 |
| Typ | Paperback |
| Format | 210,0 mm x 148,0 mm |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.02.2025 |
| ISBN | 978-3-8382-2006-2 |
| Gewicht | 265 g |
| Herstellerangaben zur Produktsicherheit gemäß EU-GPSR | mehr lesen |
“To live means to write. In order to survive, a person needs to be connected with other people. The author’s way of connecting is the texts she writes. We recommend that you ‘switch the channel’ from fast food provided by television to read a book that embodies the vision of Ukrainians and that came directly from Ukraine.”
Yoko Iwama, Professor of International Relations, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo
“Through this collection of essays, the author tries to overcome the heavy losses caused by this war in a calm, investigative, and narrative style. Dr Khomenko positively notes that the recent invasion has become an opportunity to reassess the history of Ukraine, when the people of Ukraine are turning from (passive) ‘receivers’ into (active) ‘narrators’ of their own history. We should listen to the powerful voices of Ukrainian storytellers.”
Kyoko Numano, Professor of Slavic Literature, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
“For Olga, writing this book must have been a painful process, because she once again had to experience the destruction of familiar cities, disappearance of people and stories of friends. However, I would like to express my sincere gratitude and respect for the fact that you wrote this book and shared it with us.”
Reiko Shimazu, Professor of Pedagogy, Hiroshima University
"With empathy and astute detail, Khomenko’s essays display individual, societal and even cultural reassessment of Ukraine’s history and place within the global theatre. Because of its cross-cultural mappings of Ukraine and Japan, it is a distinctly unique collection within the expansive list of translated Ukrainian literature works. The astounding depth of its humanity and scholarship, too, makes it an unforgettable masterpiece that raises the bar for nonfiction works and war memoirs."
—Nicole Yurcaba, Ukrainian-American poet and essayist, New Eastern Europe, January 2026.
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