Tamara Hundorova, Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University; Principal Research Fellow at the Shevchenko Institute of Literature at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Moderator: Oleh Kotsyuba, Director of Print and Digital Publications at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

The fact that Larysa Kosach suffered from tuberculosis is well-known but there is still no research on how the sickness affected her life and work. In her lecture, Tamara Hundorova reveals how the disease (tuberculosis) affected the writer's life and work, making her a citizen of the country of the illness for thirty years and causing her to feel "not a writer or even a person, but a surgical and orthopedic mannequin." Central to this presentation is the role of sanatorium tourism as a phenomenon of modern culture and its role in the formation of a nomadic identity, heterotopia, and exoticism in Lesya Ukrainka's narratives. The intercultural aspect, orientalism, and self-determination as the Other will also become the subject of analysis.

Register to attend: https://huri.harvard.edu/event/hundorova-writing-Illness-and-sanatorium-...

This event is organized by Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) as part of the Seminar in Ukrainian Studies public event series. Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

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