Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction

The Seeds of Memory

Bibliographic Data

ID19906837
AuthorsMateusz Świetlicki (0000-0001-7009-3837, corresponding author)
Year2023
Publication date2023-02-03
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNext-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children's Historical Fiction (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003367918
OpenAlexW4319073995
ISBN9781003367918
Open LibraryOL39669734M
LanguageEN
Citations received8

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 waves of Ukrainian immigration to Canada, including encounters with Indigenous Peoples and the First World War Internment. The last two chapters are devoted to the significance of the cultural memory of the Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1932-1933, and the Second World War for Ukrainian Canadians. All the chapters demonstrate the entanglements of Ukrainian and Canadian history and point to the role Anglophone children’s literature can play in preventing the symbolical seeds of memory from withering. This volume argues that reading, imagining, and reimagining history can lead to the formation of beyond-textual next-generation memory. Such memory created through reading is multidimensional as it involves the interpretation of both the present and the past by an individual whose reality has been directly or indirectly shaped by the past over which they have no influence. Next-generation memory is of anticipatory character, which means that authors of historical fiction anticipate the readers – both present-day and future – not to have direct links to any witnesses of the events they discuss and to have little knowledge of the transcultural character of the Ukrainian Canadian diaspora

Art · Historical memory · Humanities · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Ukrainian · Canadian Identity and History · History · Military, Security, and Education Studies · Philosophy

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