Identity and Poetics of Ukrainian Canadian Literature En route

Foreword       

David Watt

Introduction: Ukrainian Canadian Literature En Route

Weronika Suchacka and Mariya Shymchyshyn.

Part I              Writing Selves, Writing Histories: In Their Own Words

1                 Astonishment in the World: My Twelve Books

Myrna Kostash

2                 From Roots to Routes: On Being a Diasporic Ukrainian in the Anthropocene

Janice Kulyk Keefer

3                 Verse and Verisimilitude: The Role of Poetry in Writing The Matryoshka Memoirs

Colby Sasha

4                 The Taste of Hunger: The Process of Writing

Barbara Joan Scott

5                 Writing Toward Belonging: An Interview with Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Mariya Shymchyshyn

6                 Never Too Soon: Humour as an Act of Survival in Ukraine

Maria Reva

7                 The Poets Are On the Front Lines

Marusya Bociurkiw

Part II             Writing Selves, Writing Histories: Portrayals

8                 Elizabeth Bachinsky’s ‘The Wax Ceremony’. An Exercise in Accented (Self-) Writing

Matasova Iuliana

9                 Maara Haas, Outsider

Myroslav Shkandrij

10              Up Close and Personal: Memories of George Ryga

Jars Balan

Part III           Cultural Encounters and Challenges

11              Solidarity, Narrative, and Memory in Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson’s Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation(2022)

Mariya Shymchyshyn

12              Unsettling the Diaspora: Return Mobilities of First-Wave Ukrainian Settler Descendants in Myrna Kostash’s Ghosts in a Photograph

Sophie Shields

13              Tastes of the Old Country, Tastes of Home: Ukrainian Cuisine and Family Recipes in Literary Narratives of Ukrainian Canadian Women Writers

Iryna Yakovenko

Part IV           Generational Re/Interpretations

14              Somatic Assimilation in Vera Lysenko’s Yellow Boots (1954)

Hanna Rykova

15              Multicultural Canada, Ukrainian-Canadian Literature, and the Transmission of Ukrainian Culture

Paul D. Morris

16              Quiet As It’s Kept: Girlhood, Violence, and Complicity in Gloria Kupchenko Frolick’s The Green Tomato Years

Mateusz Świetlicki

Biography

Mariya Shymchyshyn is Chair of the Department of Literary Theory and World Literature Chair at Kyiv National Linguistics University in Ukraine.

Weronika Suchacka is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Szczecin, Poland.