On our way home from the revolution
Subtitle: reflections on Ukraine
By: Sonya Bilocerkowycz
Series: 21st century essays; 21st century essays
Publisher: Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780814255438
Subjects: Social conditions; Politics and government; Ukrainian diaspora
Description: "Essays by a child of the Ukrainian diaspora who, in the aftermath of the 2014 revolution, becomes disillusioned and returns home. Ultimately considers her national, familial, and ideological heritage, challenges notions of innocence and complicity, and questions the roots of patriotism"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Note on the text; title: The village (fugue); title: On our way home from the revolution; title: Bloodlines (or, although a good man, a Muscovite); title: Instructions for parents in upbringing children; title: Duck and cover; title: Word portrait; title: Veselka; title: Article 54 of the criminal code of the Ukrainian SSR; title: Samizdat; title: The village (interlude); title: Encyclopedia of earthly things; title: Swing state; title: The village (reprise); title: I saw the sunshine, melting; title: The village (Da Capo).