Where Currents Meet

Tanya Zaharchenko (MSc Oxon 2007, PhD Cantab 2014) was the 2015 Einstein Fellow in Germany, and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Oslo.

Notes on Format


Foreword







Introduction


Kharkiv’s Doubletake Generation and the Shimmer of Frontiers


Time and Space


Memory and Literature


The Shimmer of Frontiers


Where Currents Meet







Chapter One


Frontiers of Identity


Fluid Identities


Narratives at War


Sloboda: Roots of Fluidity







Chapter Two


Frontiers of Emptiness


The Last Barricade


A Story in Old Drawings


Of Monsters and Men


Memory and Emptiness


The Nonmissing Variable







Chapter Three


Frontiers of Life (and Death)


The Charon Hypothesis


The Mourning Writer







Chapter Four


Frontiers of Trauma


Expressing the Unspeakable


Surviving the Unspeakable


Traversing the Unspeakable


Writing about the Unspeakable







Chapter Five


Frontiers of iIn)Sanity


Monologues of Madness


Death, Movement, Place







Conclusion







Bibliography







Index