SUMMARY:

The article approaches literary processes in Ukraine as emblematic for the general epistemological (and hence political) crisis in the country, and as an important litmus test allowing a diagnosis of the crisis. The publication of the first anthology of contemporary Ukrainian literature in Russian in 2016 indicated the high stage of diversification of the national cultural space, which has not yet found adequate recognition in the political sphere. The analysis of bilingual modern Ukrainian literatures leads the author to conclude that the rise of hybrid subjectivities in Ukrainian society may be the only way to a truly postcolonial and independent future.