Abstract This essay applies a disability, decolonial, and multiethnic studies perspective to a reading of Ilya Kaminsky's poetic drama Deaf Republic (2019). The Odesa-born Anglophone poet's deafness is discussed in the context of disability studies and put in dialogue with the racism and homophobia addressed in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera. Such an intersectional interpretation of Kaminsky's selected works (poems, essays, and interviews) demonstrates his relevance to both post-Soviet Ukraine and contemporary US American studies.
Anastassiya Andrianova (Sun,) studied this question.