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American Literary Studies in Ukraine: Academic Discipline or a Mover tow ards Social Changes? The paper presents an overview of the past and the present of American literary studies in Ukraine since the nation's independence in 1990. We argue that American diverse experiences in finding the workable balance between an individual and the state as recorded in literature and shaped by it have been of special significance for Ukraine as potential models in its quest for new national identity. The paper discusses institutional forms of teaching and studying American Literature, recent publications in the field, as well as current theoretical trends in Ukrainian scholars’ approaches to the works authored by US writers. K eyw ords: American literary studies, Ukraine, national identity, social changes, postmodernism, multiculturalism. REZUMAT. Studii literare americane in Ucraina: disciplinä academica sau indemn spre schimbäri sociale? Lucrarea de fetä trece m revistä evolutia istoricä a studiilor literare americane in Ucraina, de la castigarea independent nationale in 1990 §i pänä in prezent Sustinem cä varietatea de experience americane in ce priveste atingerea unui echilibru functional intre individ si stat, asa cum se regäsesc in literaturä, au o semnificatie deosebitä pentru Ucraina, in sensul cä oferä modele ce pot ghida in demersul formärii unei noi identitäti nationale Lucrarea discutä forme institutionalizate de predare si studiere a literaturii americane, publicatii recente in domeniu, precum si tendintele teoretice actuale, asa cum se reflects eie in modul de abondare a operei scriitorilor americani de cätre sperialisti ucrainiem. Cuvinte cheie: studii literare americane, Ucraina, identitate nationalä, schimbäri sociale, postmodernism, milticulturalism. Dana Heller remarked in her introduction to a special edition of American Studies International featuring papers on post-Soviet American Studies, "as post-Soviet scholars, teachers, and intellectuals engage day-to-day with changing forms of local and 1 Natalia Vysotska is Full Professor of European and American literature, Head of 'Theory and History of World Literature" Department at the Kiev National Linguistics University in Ukraine. Her research interests encompass African American literature with special focus on drama; multi/transculturalism and ethnic literatures in the United State. Her major publications include the books: The Concept o f M ulticulturalism as a Factor in American Literary History. Late Twentieth Early Twenty-First Centuries (Kiev, 2012); The Unity o f the Plural American Literature o f Late Twentieth Early Twenty-First Centuries in the Context o f Cultural Pluralism (Kiev, 2010) as well as numerous essays. Contact address: <literatavysotska@gmail.com>.

American Literary Studies in Ukraine: Academic Discipline or a Mover towards Social Changes?