Kulturowo-cywilizacyjne współrzędne Ukrainy we współczesnym polskim reportażu literackim (Imperium Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego, Biała gorączka Jacka Hugo-Badera, Zabić smoka Katarzyny Kwiatkowskiej-Moskalewicz)
Cultural and Civilizational Coordinates of Ukraine in Contemporary Polish Literary Reportage: Ryszard Kapuściński’s Empire, Jacek Hugo-Bader’s White Fever, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz’s Zabić smoka [To Kill the Dragon]

Summary/Abstract: Olesya Nakhlik’s article brings an analysis of Ukraine’s identity image and its civilizational choices in accounts,or reportages, by three Polish reporters, Ryszard Kapuściński, Jacek Hugo-Bader and Katarzyna Kwiatkowska--Moskalewicz. These literary reportages show a 30-year perspective of shaping the Ukrainian country andsociety in the context of its recent history, from revealing the existence of post-Soviet inertia on the remnantsof Soviet self-identification in the new economic and political realities after 1991 in Imperium (The Empire),through the shaping by Ukrainians of their own eclectic identity in the difficult conditions of ethnic, linguisticand religious diversity in The White Fever, to reflection on the reasons for the (un)successful attempts at a sharprevision of postcolonial views and landmarks during the Orange Revolution and later the Euromaidan resultingin the dramatic events of the Russian military aggression in 2014 with the annexation of the Crimean Peninsulain Zabić smoka. Ukraińskie rewolucje [To Slay the Dragon. Ukrainian Revolutions]. Admittedly, the issues thusraised would merit separate scholarly considerations, because, despite the Ukrainian editions of these collectionsof reportages, they are now rarely discussed by Ukrainian literary scholars, while Polish scholars, in numerousdissertations, focus primarily on the image of post-Soviet Russia, while typically placing the Ukrainianterritories in the broader context of considerations devoted to the contemporary situation of the republics ofthe former Soviet Union.

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