Liminality and Museums in Ukraine: the Khanenkos’ Case

By Hanna Rudyk Due to Ukraine’s complex entanglement in the history of Russian imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet political and semantic systems that silenced and slandered Ukrainian culture, the latter is still little known and poorly read by both the outside world and by itself. This essay attempts to make use of “liminality” as a conceptual tool for reading Ukraine’s modern culture history and particularly museums. The term that comes from the Latin word “limen” meaning a “threshold” was i...