Kozak/Cossack

[Valentino, Russell]

This example ("St. Volodymyr, ruler of Ukraine") makes perfect anachronistic sense. One merely has to accept the implication that the nation of Ukraine existed in 988...

The phenomenon of renaming in post-Communist space has received serious scholarly attention. It bears some similarities but is not equivalent to renaming in post-colonial space (Bombay, Peking, Bangui). If anyone knows of a comparative study or studies of these two phenomena, please pass it/them on.


Russell Scott Valentino
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature
University of Iowa
319.335.2827



-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Evgeny Steiner
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 8:58 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Kozak/Cossack

What is offered by changing Cossacks for 'kozaks' is a part of appropriation
of the common history by groups of (the) Ukrainian activists. It is similar
to the inscription on the monument of the Millennium of the Baptism of Rus
on London's Holland Park Road erected by "Ukrainians in Great Britain": "To
celebrate the establishment of Christianity in Ukraine by St. Volodymyr in
988". In case anybody has misconceptions about Vladimir, there is a
clarification: "St. Volodymyr, ruler of Ukraine."

ES

P.S. I'll be happy to send a snapshop to those who want to see it by their
own eyes.

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