Oksana Kuzmenko is a philologist and folklorist holding a doctoral degree in philology. She serves as a senior researcher at the Social Anthropology Department of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Her research focuses on the theory and history of folklore-literary relations, Ukrainian and regional folklore of the 20th century. She is particularly interested in multi-genre works with socio-historical themes, such as shooter and rebel songs, oral narratives about the First and Second World Wars, collectivization, famines, and evictions.
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The Dividing Line between Authenticity and Fakery: Folklore, Fakelore, and Invented Tradition
Here is an interview with Oksana Kuzmenko, a researcher of Ukrainian folklore, in which she is discussing authentic folklore as opposed to fakelore in the context of emerging national imagination. Here, Kuzmenko touches upon various topics: authenticity and invention in…