Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Childrens Historical Fiction: The [Paperback]

This is the first book monograph devoted to Anglophone Ukrainian Canadian childrens 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.

Mateusz Zwietlicki is Assistant Professor at the University of WrocBaws Institute of English Studies and Director of the Center for Young Peoples Literature and Culture. His scholarship focuses on North American and Ukrainian childrens 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.

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

This is the first book monograph devoted to Anglophone Ukrainian Canadian childrens historical fiction published between 1991 and 2021. It consists of five chapters offering cross-sectional and interdisciplinary readings of 41 books  novels, novellas, picturebooks, short stories, and a graphic novel. The first three chapters focus on texts about the complex process of becoming Ukrainian Canadian, showcasing the experiences of the first two waves of Ukrainian immigration to Canada, including encounters with Indigenous Peoples and the First World War Internment. The last two chalC)