Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children’s Literature

Mateusz Świetlicki is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wrocław’s Institute of English Studies (Poland), Director of the Center for Young People’s Literature and Culture, and Deputy Dean for Student Affairs at the Faculty of Letters. Anastasia Ulanowicz is an Associate Professor of Children’s Literature at the University of Florida (USA).

Foreword: Toward the World (Tamara Hundorova)

Introduction to Ukrainian Children’s Literature (Mateusz Świetlicki and Anastasia Ulanowicz)

PART I - The Sources of Ukrainian Children’s Literature

1. Fairy Fales, Folk Traditions, and the Formation of Ukrainian National Identity (Katarzyna Jakubowska-Krawczyk)

2. Classics for Children and Crossovers into Children’s Literature: Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, and Lesia Ukrainka (Mateusz Świetlicki and Anastasia Ulanowicz)

PART II - Ukrainian Children’s Literature in the Century of Repressions

3. Moms at Factories: Ukrainian Children’s Literature of the 1920s and 1930s (Snizhana Zhygun)

4. Russophone Ukrainian Children’s Literature: To the Roots of the Phenomenon (Anna Boginskaya)

5. Children of Genocide and War: Depictions of Post-War Soviet Ukrainian Childhood in the Works of Vsevolod Nestaiko and Hryhir Tiutiunnyk (Mateusz Świetlicki)

6. “What is Your Identity?”: Ukrainian Idea in Diasporic Children’s Literature (Maryna Vardanian)

PART III - The Present and Future of Ukrainian Literature for Young People

7. Contemporary Ukrainian Children’s Poetry and Prose: An Overview (Tetiana Kachak and Tetyana Blyznyuk)

8. The Coming of Age of Ukrainian Young Adult Literature After 1991 (Halyna Pavlyshyn)

9. Ukraine’s Cultural Ambassadors: Contemporary Ukrainian Picturebooks (Anastasia Ulanowicz)

10. Memories of the Future: Ukrainian Children’s Literature about War (Aliona Yarova and Björn Sundmark)

Afterword: Evelyn Arizpe