Mateusz Świetlicki
Biographic Data
| ID | 4206194 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mateusz Świetlicki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mateusz |
| FAMILY NAME | Świetlicki |
| SIGNATURE | ŚWIETLICKI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wrocław |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7009-3837 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
When Historical Fiction Meets Present-Day War
This essay analyzes narrative strategy and ideology in children’s historical fiction, focusing on how Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, a Ukrainian Canadian author of Anglophone historical literature, portrays the Russia–Ukraine war in the first two volumes of her Kidnapped from Ukraine series. Writing for North American readers who may be unfamiliar with the region’s complex history, Skrypuch draws on conflicting Russian and Ukrainian cultural memories o…
Przyjaciele i/lub wrogowie. Obrazy relacji polsko-ukraińskich w kanadyjskiej prozie historycznej dla dzieci i młodzieży
W centrum dyskursów mnemonicznych ukraińskiej diaspory w Kanadzie znajdują się wydarzenia transkontynentalne, łączące Ukrainę z Kanadą. Na przestrzeni ostatnich kilku dekad kanadyjscy i amerykańscy pisarze pochodzenia ukraińskiego – jak również ci niemający bezpośrednich związków z Ukrainą – wprowadzili tematykę skomplikowanych relacji między Polską i Ukrainą do literatury pisanej po angielsku – co ciekawe, głównie tej skierowanej do młodych czyt…
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children’s Literature
"Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children's Literature showcases the work of prominent scholars of children's literature from Ukraine and the diaspora as it traces the history of books written, marketed for, and circulating among young people since the rise of Ukraine's nationhood in the nineteenth century. This book encompasses a full range of texts and genres (e.g., fiction, nonfiction, poetry, picture books, graphic novels), with special attention give…
“Canada Is Where You Belong. Poland Is The Past”
Polish characters appear in both mainstream Canadian books and children’s literature, but they usually function as either side characters or antagonists. The fiction of Heather Kirk is a noteworthy exception. This Canadian writer, who spent two years in Warsaw in the late 1970s working as a lecturer at the University of Warsaw, devoted her first two young adult problem novels, Warsaw Spring (2001) and A Drop of Rain (2004), to Polish Canadians an…
The Silent Unseen and Underground Soldiers
The memory of the Second World War remains a bone of contention between Poland and Ukraine. The countries’ mnemonic discourses differ significantly, especially regarding the legacy of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Most local children’s and young adult authors avoid discussing historical nuances and offer their readers simple narratives about victims and oppressors. Thus, it is remarkable that in the last few years descriptions of the difficult Po…
Witnesses, Deniers and Bourgeois Troublemakers. The Holodomor and Ukrainian-Canadian Collaboration in Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s Winterkill (2022)
The article examines Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s Winterkill (2022), a recent Holodomor middle-grade historical novel issued by Scholastic, and showcases that Skrypuch explores the implicated position of North Americans – especially Soviet collaborators and journalists – in the context of the famine and Stalin’s collectivization. Most notably, Winterkill brings attention to the actions of Rhea Clyman, a Jewish-Canadian journalist who wrote factual a…
Trapped Between Hitler and Stalin
This article studies the portrayal of Nazi and German characters in Gabriele Goldstone’s Tainted Amber (2021), a Young Adult novel set in East Prussia right before the war, and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s middle-grade book Don’t Tell the Enemy (2018), set in Nazi-occupied western Ukraine. The article demonstrates that Skrypuch and Goldstone point to the role of propaganda, ideology, and opportunism in the spread of Nazism, anti-Semitism, and Stalin…
Unburied Practices of Memory
In many Polish children’s books published in the last twenty years the relationship between Jews and Poles during the Holocaust is presented as an unburied theme which can be interpreted in the context of both collective and private/individual cultures of remembrance. Therefore, in this case, we deal with experiences confirmed in the cultural and written order rather than existentially faced. In contemporary Poland, a practically monoethnic and p…
Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction
This is the first book monograph devoted to Anglophone Ukrainian Canadian children’s 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 wave…
Introduction. Memory, Identity, Belonging
Ever since the beginning of migration of Eastern and Central Europeans to North America on a massive scale at the turn of the twentieth century, this group of new-comers faced the exclusionary nativist rhetoric, similarly to other ethnic groups before and after them—a rhetoric that posited them as the Other and a threat to the established communities (cf. Zecker; Sojka; Pula; Gladsky). Unlike immigrants of color, though, the subsequent generation…
Trauma, Romance, and the Diasporic Memory Keepers of the Holodomor in Erin Litteken’s The Memory Keeper of Kyiv
A few months after its publication in North America, Erin Litteken’s bestselling historical novel The Memory Keeper of Kyiv (2022) has already been translated into fourteen languages. Thus, it is plausible that for many readers the novel will be the first encounter with the complex topic of the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Soviet Ukraine. This article examines the narrative techniques used in The Memory Keeper of Kyiv and demonstrates that the co…
Plaga czerwonych potworów. Reprezentacja Hołodomoru w książce obrazkowej „Tell Me a Story, Babushka” Caroli Schmidt i Viniciusa Melo
The plague can be symbolically interpreted as a deadly ideology that led to the deaths of several million people and the subsequent erasure of these traumatic events from collective memory. This paper takes a closer look at the literary representations of the Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1932–1933, in English-language children’s literature of the Ukrainian diaspora, using the example of the first edition of the picturebook Tell Me a Story, Babu…
Funny Girls
Daję ci te wspomnienia niczym nasiona…” — transfer diasporycznej pamięci następnego pokolenia w powieści „Lesia’s Dream” (2003) Laury Langston
Метою цієї статті є аналіз роману Лори Ленґстон Мрія Лесі (2003) з перспективи досліджень пам’яті та виявлення мнемічного потенціалу дитячої літератури. Головна героїня роману розглядається як постать, яка передає і отримує пам’ять. Автор статті показує, що, використовуючи історію канадського інтернування українців під час Першої світової війни — найбільш травматичного досвіду української діаспори в Канаді — Ленґстон ство-рює оповідь, яка може ін…
Białe plamy pamięci. Nieopowiedziana historia Wielkiej Wojny w twórczości Marshy Forchuk Skrypuch
Тема першої світової війни не з’являється в сучасній українській літературі для моло-дих читачів, хоча війна була важливою темою в радянській дитячій літературі до 1991 року. Відсутність таких публікацій дивує, враховуючи той факт, що пам’ять про своєрідний український досвід цих травматичних подій можна знайти в канадсько українській дитя-чій літературі, головним чином у Марши Форчук Скрипух. Незважаючи на популярність письменниці серед північно…
Sprawozdanie z XIII Międzynarodowej Slawistycznej Konferencji Literaturoznawczej „Wielkie tematy kultury w literaturach słowiańskich. Pamięć”
Report about XIII International Slavonic Studies ConferenceWielkie tematy kultury w literaturach słowiańskich. Pamięć (Wrocław, 16–17 maja 2019 roku)
Nie nazywaj mnie pedałem” – homofobia i homohisteria w prozie Serhija Żadana
The aim of this paper is to present the homophobic and homohysteric discourse in Serhiy Zhadan’s prose. Adopting the perspective of the pro-feminist men and masculinities studies and researching the discourse on masculinity in Zhadan’s fiction enables the author to present men in the period of transformation of the last twenty-five years and show the gradual changes in the dominant attitude towards gays. Although it is difficult to treat Zhadan’s…
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Nie nazywaj mnie pedałem” – homofobia i homohisteria w prozie Serhija Żadana
The aim of this paper is to present the homophobic and homohysteric discourse in Serhiy Zhadan’s prose. Adopting the perspective of the pro-feminist men and masculinities studies and researching the discourse on masculinity in Zhadan’s fiction enables the author to present men in the period of transformation of the last twenty-five years and show the gradual changes in the dominant attitude towards gays. Although it is difficult to treat Zhadan’s…
Sprawozdanie z XIII Międzynarodowej Slawistycznej Konferencji Literaturoznawczej „Wielkie tematy kultury w literaturach słowiańskich. Pamięć”
Report about XIII International Slavonic Studies ConferenceWielkie tematy kultury w literaturach słowiańskich. Pamięć (Wrocław, 16–17 maja 2019 roku)
Daję ci te wspomnienia niczym nasiona…” — transfer diasporycznej pamięci następnego pokolenia w powieści „Lesia’s Dream” (2003) Laury Langston
Метою цієї статті є аналіз роману Лори Ленґстон Мрія Лесі (2003) з перспективи досліджень пам’яті та виявлення мнемічного потенціалу дитячої літератури. Головна героїня роману розглядається як постать, яка передає і отримує пам’ять. Автор статті показує, що, використовуючи історію канадського інтернування українців під час Першої світової війни — найбільш травматичного досвіду української діаспори в Канаді — Ленґстон ство-рює оповідь, яка може ін…
Białe plamy pamięci. Nieopowiedziana historia Wielkiej Wojny w twórczości Marshy Forchuk Skrypuch
Тема першої світової війни не з’являється в сучасній українській літературі для моло-дих читачів, хоча війна була важливою темою в радянській дитячій літературі до 1991 року. Відсутність таких публікацій дивує, враховуючи той факт, що пам’ять про своєрідний український досвід цих травматичних подій можна знайти в канадсько українській дитя-чій літературі, головним чином у Марши Форчук Скрипух. Незважаючи на популярність письменниці серед північно…
Funny Girls
Plaga czerwonych potworów. Reprezentacja Hołodomoru w książce obrazkowej „Tell Me a Story, Babushka” Caroli Schmidt i Viniciusa Melo
The plague can be symbolically interpreted as a deadly ideology that led to the deaths of several million people and the subsequent erasure of these traumatic events from collective memory. This paper takes a closer look at the literary representations of the Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1932–1933, in English-language children’s literature of the Ukrainian diaspora, using the example of the first edition of the picturebook Tell Me a Story, Babu…
Unburied Practices of Memory
In many Polish children’s books published in the last twenty years the relationship between Jews and Poles during the Holocaust is presented as an unburied theme which can be interpreted in the context of both collective and private/individual cultures of remembrance. Therefore, in this case, we deal with experiences confirmed in the cultural and written order rather than existentially faced. In contemporary Poland, a practically monoethnic and p…
Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction
This is the first book monograph devoted to Anglophone Ukrainian Canadian children’s 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 wave…
Introduction. Memory, Identity, Belonging
Ever since the beginning of migration of Eastern and Central Europeans to North America on a massive scale at the turn of the twentieth century, this group of new-comers faced the exclusionary nativist rhetoric, similarly to other ethnic groups before and after them—a rhetoric that posited them as the Other and a threat to the established communities (cf. Zecker; Sojka; Pula; Gladsky). Unlike immigrants of color, though, the subsequent generation…
Trauma, Romance, and the Diasporic Memory Keepers of the Holodomor in Erin Litteken’s The Memory Keeper of Kyiv
A few months after its publication in North America, Erin Litteken’s bestselling historical novel The Memory Keeper of Kyiv (2022) has already been translated into fourteen languages. Thus, it is plausible that for many readers the novel will be the first encounter with the complex topic of the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Soviet Ukraine. This article examines the narrative techniques used in The Memory Keeper of Kyiv and demonstrates that the co…
“Canada Is Where You Belong. Poland Is The Past”
Polish characters appear in both mainstream Canadian books and children’s literature, but they usually function as either side characters or antagonists. The fiction of Heather Kirk is a noteworthy exception. This Canadian writer, who spent two years in Warsaw in the late 1970s working as a lecturer at the University of Warsaw, devoted her first two young adult problem novels, Warsaw Spring (2001) and A Drop of Rain (2004), to Polish Canadians an…
The Silent Unseen and Underground Soldiers
The memory of the Second World War remains a bone of contention between Poland and Ukraine. The countries’ mnemonic discourses differ significantly, especially regarding the legacy of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Most local children’s and young adult authors avoid discussing historical nuances and offer their readers simple narratives about victims and oppressors. Thus, it is remarkable that in the last few years descriptions of the difficult Po…
Witnesses, Deniers and Bourgeois Troublemakers. The Holodomor and Ukrainian-Canadian Collaboration in Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s Winterkill (2022)
The article examines Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s Winterkill (2022), a recent Holodomor middle-grade historical novel issued by Scholastic, and showcases that Skrypuch explores the implicated position of North Americans – especially Soviet collaborators and journalists – in the context of the famine and Stalin’s collectivization. Most notably, Winterkill brings attention to the actions of Rhea Clyman, a Jewish-Canadian journalist who wrote factual a…
Trapped Between Hitler and Stalin
This article studies the portrayal of Nazi and German characters in Gabriele Goldstone’s Tainted Amber (2021), a Young Adult novel set in East Prussia right before the war, and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch’s middle-grade book Don’t Tell the Enemy (2018), set in Nazi-occupied western Ukraine. The article demonstrates that Skrypuch and Goldstone point to the role of propaganda, ideology, and opportunism in the spread of Nazism, anti-Semitism, and Stalin…
When Historical Fiction Meets Present-Day War
This essay analyzes narrative strategy and ideology in children’s historical fiction, focusing on how Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, a Ukrainian Canadian author of Anglophone historical literature, portrays the Russia–Ukraine war in the first two volumes of her Kidnapped from Ukraine series. Writing for North American readers who may be unfamiliar with the region’s complex history, Skrypuch draws on conflicting Russian and Ukrainian cultural memories o…
Przyjaciele i/lub wrogowie. Obrazy relacji polsko-ukraińskich w kanadyjskiej prozie historycznej dla dzieci i młodzieży
W centrum dyskursów mnemonicznych ukraińskiej diaspory w Kanadzie znajdują się wydarzenia transkontynentalne, łączące Ukrainę z Kanadą. Na przestrzeni ostatnich kilku dekad kanadyjscy i amerykańscy pisarze pochodzenia ukraińskiego – jak również ci niemający bezpośrednich związków z Ukrainą – wprowadzili tematykę skomplikowanych relacji między Polską i Ukrainą do literatury pisanej po angielsku – co ciekawe, głównie tej skierowanej do młodych czyt…
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children’s Literature
"Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children's Literature showcases the work of prominent scholars of children's literature from Ukraine and the diaspora as it traces the history of books written, marketed for, and circulating among young people since the rise of Ukraine's nationhood in the nineteenth century. This book encompasses a full range of texts and genres (e.g., fiction, nonfiction, poetry, picture books, graphic novels), with special attention give…
Art (10 works) · History (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Literature (8 works) · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies (8 works) · Central European Literary Studies (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Ukrainian (7 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (5 works)