Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West

• Main Author: Prymak, Thomas M. (Thomas Michael)
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press 15.05.2021
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Europe, Western; Europe, Western > Relations > Ukraine; European Studies; Folklore; History; International relations in literature; Middle East; Middle East > Relations > Ukraine; Political Science; Relations; Slavic Studies; Ukraine; Ukraine > Relations > Europe, Western; Ukraine > Relations > Middle East
• ISBN: 0228005779; 9780228005773; 0228005787; 9780228005780
• DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1m0khf0

For decades, Ukrainian contacts with the outside world were minimal, impeded by politics, ideology, and geography. But prior to the Soviet period the country enjoyed diverse exchanges with, on the one hand, its Islamic neighbours, the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire, and, on the other, its ce...

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Figures INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: From Abbot Daniel to Count Potocki: CHAPTER TWO: From the “Emir” to the Metropolitan: CHAPTER THREE: Tatar Slave Raiding and Turkish Captivity in Ukrainian History and Legend CHAPTER FOUR: Maksymovych and the National Awakening CHAPTER FIVE: Shamil, Shevchenko, and the Chef-d’oeuvre, “The Caucasus”: CHAPTER SIX: All about Ève: CHAPTER SEVEN: La Guzla, Gogol, and the Cossacks: CHAPTER EIGHT: Deciphering Rembrandt’s Polish Rider [Illustrations] CHAPTER NINE: Message to Mehmed: APPENDIX A APPENDIX B APPENDIX C Notes Index
• Cover -- UKRAINE, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND THE WEST -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Figures -- INTRODUCTION Ukrainian History in Context -- ONE A Complex History: Ukraine and the Dar al-Islam -- CHAPTER ONE From Abbot Daniel to Count Potocki: Middle East Travel to 1800 -- CHAPTER TWO From the "Emir" to the Metropolitan: Middle East Travel (1800-1914) -- CHAPTER THREE Tatar Slave Raiding and Turkish Captivity in Ukrainian History and Legend -- TWO A People Finds Its Voice: Maksymovych and Shevchenko -- CHAPTER FOUR Maksymovych and the National Awakening -- CHAPTER FIVE Shamil, Shevchenko, and the Chef-d'oeuvre, "The Caucasus": A Poem as Seen from Afar -- THREE From Paris to Verkhivnia and the Sich: The French Connection -- CHAPTER SIX All about Ève: The Realist Balzac's Ukrainian Dreamland -- CHAPTER SEVEN La Guzla, Gogol, and the Cossacks: Prosper Mérimée Looks East -- FOUR Contested Canvases: Rembrandt's Polish Rider and Repin's Satirical Cossacks -- CHAPTER EIGHT Deciphering Rembrandt's Polish Rider -- CHAPTER NINE Message to Mehmed: Repin Creates His Zaporozhian Cossacks -- APPENDIX A Dmitrii E. Mishin on the "Saqaliba" in the Medieval Muslim World -- APPENDIX B "Orientalisms" in Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian -- APPENDIX C Shevchenko and the Muslims -- Notes -- Index