Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Childrens Historical Fiction

This is the first book monograph devoted to Anglophone Ukrainian Canadian children's historical fiction published between 1991 and 2021 and consists of five chapters offering cross-sectional and interdisciplinary readings of almost forty books - novels, novellas, picturebooks, short stories, and a graphic novel.

Autorentext

Mateusz wietlicki is Assistant Professor at the University of Wrocaw's Institute of English Studies and Director of the Center for Young People's Literature and Culture. His scholarship focuses on North American and Ukrainian children's and YA literature and culture, memory, gender, and queer studies, as well as popular culture and film. He has published in English, Ukrainian, Polish, and Croatian.

Inhalt

Introduction

1 Land of All Colors and Races?: Canadian Cossacks, Indigenous Peoples, and the Myth of the Founding Fathers of the Prairies

2 Unspeakable. Unacceptable. Then and Now: The First World War and Canadian Internment Camps

3 Canadian Pysanky and the Survival of the Seeds of Memory

4 You filthy little Zaraza!: Red Terror, Collectivization, and the Holodomor in Canadian Cultural Memory

5 Survivors, Oppressors, Implicated Subjects, and Entangled Bystanders: The Second World War and the Holocaust

Conclusion