Canuke literature
Subtitle: critical essays on Canadian Ukrainian writing
By: Sonia Mycak.
Publisher: Nova Science Publications
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Huntington, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Canadian literature -- Ukrainian authors -- History and criticism.; Ukrainians -- Canada -- Intellectual life.; Ukrainians in literature.
Description: "Canada was settled in three waves of immigration, the first being from the western provinces. These people set up homesteads on open prairies, which provided an indelible mark on their country. The next phase consisted of educated and professional people bringing with them a new Ukrainian consciousness. The third group consisted of refugees from Europe, Asia, and Eastern Ukraine who not only sought to make themselves safe, but to preserve and contribute to Ukrainian culture.

As part of this culture, a literary life has developed and so the combined Canadian-Ukraine name has become "Canuck."".

"This book examines the literature of Ukraine born immigrants. It begins with the first novel written in English, Vera Lysenko's, Yellow Boots, and then looks at other texts that help the reader visualize the Canuck concepts of culture and tradition. It is through the nostalgia and analysis of these texts that the writer portrays the perspective and stylistic form of this literature and its thematic trend."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: Representing Canadian-Ukrainian Culture: Vera Lysenko's; title: Yellow Boots1; title: Chapter 2: Simple Sentimentality or Specific Narrative Strategy?; title: Nostalgia in the Canadian-Ukrainian Text 31; title: Chapter 3: "A Different Story" by Helen Potrebenko: The Prairie Pioneer; title: Myth Re-visited 4 49; title: Chapter 4: The Author Resurrected? Rules of Authorship and the; title: Canadian-Ukrainian Text79; title: Chapter 5: Two Lands New Visions Stories fiom Canada and Ukraie:; title: Bi-cultural/trans-National production Problematised 97; title: Index 27.