Za Hranetsiu Beyond the Border : constructions of identities in Ukrainian Canadian literature Identität anglokanadische Literatur ukrainisch kanadische Literatur Canadian literature in English Ukrainian Canadian literature identity Grounded in the literary and cultural studies the dissertation Za Hranetsiuʺ Beyond the Borderʺ: Constructions of Identities in Ukrainian Canadian Literature answers the question how identities of different Ukrainian immigrants and their offspring have been constructed continuously developed and transformed in contemporary Canadian literature. The study simultaneously presents a discussion of postmodern identities a concise historical survey of Ukrainian immigration to Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and an overall picture of the exceptionally substantial body of Ukrainian Canadian literature. Detailed literary analyses focus on seven Ukrainian Canadian works: Sons of the Soil (1939 45 1959) by Illia Kiriak Yellow Boots (1954) by Vera Lysenko A Letter to My Son (1981) by George Ryga The Green Library (1996) by Janice Kulyk Keefer The Doomed Bridegroom: A Memoir (1998) by Myrna Kostash Kalyna&rsquo;s Song (2003) by Lisa Grekul and The Ladies&rsquo; Lending Library (2007) by Janice Kulyk Keefer.