Abstract:
This fifth issue of our journal is dedicated to questions pertaining to intercultural
relations and displacement in Ukraine and abroad. This makes sense, as beginning with
the 17th century Ukrainian culture has experienced several large high and low ebbs,
major spatial displacements (to Muscovy, Poland, Canada, Czechoslovakia, the USA,
Argentina…), and undergone a number of significant transformations (the replacement
of Church Slavonic in literature and scholarship by Ukrainian, a phenomenon, by the
way, that occurred a quarter century earlier than in Russia; entry into the international
historical-literary context, and the emergence of potent émigré communities with their
own literary and cultural movements, etc.), which brought about significant changes
in and modifications to Ukrainian culture.
