Olena Haleta / Tima Miroshnichenko
Monday, 11th November 2024, 6–8 PM, Olena Haleta (HU/L’viv), "Hidden Archives — Endangered Heritage. The Case of Yuri Mezhenko"
For Michel Foucault, the archive opens up a new discursive field that offers additional possibilities for understanding what is said and what remains beyond what is said in individual texts. In the intensified process of revising the Ukrainian cultural tradition, literary archives become an important resource not only for the reinterpretation of individual texts, but also for the reconceptualization of cultural history itself. The archive of Yuri Mezhenko, a literary critic and one of the leading Ukrainian bibliographers of the 20th century, contains unique evidence of an intensive process of theoretical reflection and emotional experience of the cultural reality of the 1920s, a period that today is one of the most important and at the same time the most controversial for understanding cultural continuity.
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