Reconciling the exotic "other" in Nikolai Gogol's Taras Bulba
Journal: Texas ScholarWorks (Texas Digital Library)
Year: 2015

Around the mid-sixteenth century, the Ukrainian Cossacks arose out of the desire to create free and equal communities outside the control of the imperial powers of Russia and Poland. In the nineteenth century, the Cossack was brought to the forefront of cultural myth making in the search for identity during the historical periods of Nationalism and Romanticism. The Zaporozhian Cossacks were central in the conceptualization of the modern Ukrainian identity and development of national consciousnes