Alex Averbuch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Averbuch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Averbuch |
| SIGNATURE | AVERBUCH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0721-6958 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Russia’s occupation of eastern Ukraine
Focusing on areas of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions occupied by Russia since 2014, this article examines occupation as a cultural infrastructure assembled through heraldry, monuments, popular music, cinema, education policy, school materials, and literature. It shows how these media share a repertoire that stages conquest as “reunification” and dependence as local sovereignty, recasting violence as anti-fascist defence and historical resto…
Bewitching the Tsar
Russophone literature of Ukraine
This article discusses sociolinguistic aspects of belonging through the phenomenon of Russophone Ukrainian authors who have either switched to Ukrainian or continued using Russian during the Russo-Ukrainian War. It draws on a survey that the author has conducted over the past several months of 30 such authors. Fifteen respondents, who during the war have opted to withdraw from their main language of creativity in favour of another, are compared t…
All That We Wish for Now Is the Recognition of Our Pain
like nails sliding out of desiccated woodso definitively comes apartthat which just recently wasthe realization of our strengthhe remembered the difficult battlesI still shudder, he sayswhen the bronze blacksmithspound the airwithout ceasepeople who leave their placeof residenceduring wartake on the faces of the injuredsometimes—of the killedover timethe horror in their eyes losesits former pigmentthe chaos of lifeturns sufferinginto profligacyal…
The Theurgy of Impurity
Much of women's writing emerged as a response to misogynic interpretations of the feminine in androcentric tradition. This paper examines intertextual affinities between the Russian modernist poet Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) and Ukrainian modernist poet Natalia Livyts'ka‐Kholodna (1902–2005) in the context of the European negative symbolism of the feminine; and as a manifestation of transnational modernist practices. It demonstrates how the repres…
Orientalism and Homoerotic Desire in the Poetry of a Ukrainian Modernist
Alexander Averbuch, ORIENTALISM AND HOMOEROTIC DESIRE IN THE POETRY OF A UKRAINIAN MODERNIST: AHATANHEL KRYMS'KYI IN LEBANON, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 62, No. 2 (SUMMER 2018), pp. 318-338
Russophone literature of Ukraine
This article discusses sociolinguistic aspects of belonging through the phenomenon of Russophone Ukrainian authors who have either switched to Ukrainian or continued using Russian during the Russo-Ukrainian War. It draws on a survey that the author has conducted over the past several months of 30 such authors. Fifteen respondents, who during the war have opted to withdraw from their main language of creativity in favour of another, are compared t…
Orientalism and Homoerotic Desire in the Poetry of a Ukrainian Modernist
Alexander Averbuch, ORIENTALISM AND HOMOEROTIC DESIRE IN THE POETRY OF A UKRAINIAN MODERNIST: AHATANHEL KRYMS'KYI IN LEBANON, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 62, No. 2 (SUMMER 2018), pp. 318-338
The Theurgy of Impurity
Much of women's writing emerged as a response to misogynic interpretations of the feminine in androcentric tradition. This paper examines intertextual affinities between the Russian modernist poet Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) and Ukrainian modernist poet Natalia Livyts'ka‐Kholodna (1902–2005) in the context of the European negative symbolism of the feminine; and as a manifestation of transnational modernist practices. It demonstrates how the repres…
Bewitching the Tsar
Russophone literature of Ukraine
This article discusses sociolinguistic aspects of belonging through the phenomenon of Russophone Ukrainian authors who have either switched to Ukrainian or continued using Russian during the Russo-Ukrainian War. It draws on a survey that the author has conducted over the past several months of 30 such authors. Fifteen respondents, who during the war have opted to withdraw from their main language of creativity in favour of another, are compared t…
All That We Wish for Now Is the Recognition of Our Pain
like nails sliding out of desiccated woodso definitively comes apartthat which just recently wasthe realization of our strengthhe remembered the difficult battlesI still shudder, he sayswhen the bronze blacksmithspound the airwithout ceasepeople who leave their placeof residenceduring wartake on the faces of the injuredsometimes—of the killedover timethe horror in their eyes losesits former pigmentthe chaos of lifeturns sufferinginto profligacyal…
Russia’s occupation of eastern Ukraine
Focusing on areas of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions occupied by Russia since 2014, this article examines occupation as a cultural infrastructure assembled through heraldry, monuments, popular music, cinema, education policy, school materials, and literature. It shows how these media share a repertoire that stages conquest as “reunification” and dependence as local sovereignty, recasting violence as anti-fascist defence and historical resto…
Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Ukrainian (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Orientalism (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)