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Mapping Ukraine and Its Space in Nineteenth Century Ukrainian Poetry
Marija Zubry'cka
; Franko National University of Lviv
Abstract
The article deals with the literary cartography of Ukraine and its space in nineteenth-century Ukrainian poetry, that managed to construct national identity discourses by communicating the image of a future Ukraine and using cultural elements tied to spatial identity. Particular attention is given to how poets from different regions have tried to bridge borders of the divided Ukraine by employing the poetics of space and the cartography of imagination as key elements of textual strategies. Nineteenth-century poets attempted to develop a platform for public communication in order to realize a future the Ukrainians might have wished for as an independent nation. It was a time when great Ukrainian writers dreamed of seeing their colonized and divided country free and united by a common language, common space, common values, a common understanding of the past, and a shared future.
Keywords
geopoetics; real and fictional spaces; literary cartography; poetic representation of space; constructing of national identity
Hrčak ID:
338331
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Publication date:
15.11.2025.
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