RECENT PAGES IN LITERARY GEOGRAPHY:

EUROPEAN UKRAINE

Abstract

Defining Ukrainian identity as a European one has become the stake of the
political and military struggle between Russia and Ukraine. Disregarding the
Ukrainian nation in general and its European vector produced a rift between related
peoples. Manipulation of identity, control over the past, the way of managing
memory have become current themes of Ukrainian writers. Our paper is an analysis
of an emerging geoliterary area of great interest that demonstrates the force of
national cohesion to change once established regional borders, to instrumentalize
and give a new meaning to memory, to take history out of parentheses, to draw
projections and present solutions for the future.