Forgetful Recollections Images of Central and Eastern Europe in Canadian Literature
Journal: Repozytorium Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Year: 2014

The present study is an attempt to explore the position of the memory and postmemory of Central and Eastern Europe in contemporary Canadian literature. The analysis is inspired by Simona Škrabec’s concept of the 20th century Central Europe seen as diverse and evolving “space of dispersion.” In this context, the book situates the novels and memoirs, published in Canada at the turn of the 20th and 21st century and written by immigrants and their descendants from Central and Eastern Europe, as the