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This is the first book monograph devoted to Anglophone Ukrainian Canadian children’s historical fiction published between 1991 and 2021 and consists of five chapters offering cross-sectional and interdisciplinary readings of almost forty books – novels, novellas, picturebooks, short stories, and a graphic novel.

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.

Reviews

"I would heartily recommend this book not just to scholars and educators but also to the wider public. It is a truly pioneering study and is definitely more timely now than its author could ever have imagined. Each of the chapters is accompanied by extensive and detailed endnotes, and the work concludes with an impressive bibliography of primary and secondary texts."

--Lindsay Myers, University of Galway

"Mateusz wietlickis book monograph is not only an important contribution to the study of Ukrainian Canadian and Canadian childrens literature, highlighting the history of Ukraine and the relations of Ukrainians with other peoples in Canada, but also a fascinating story about how reading, imagining, and reimagining history can lead to the formation of beyond-textual next-generation memory."

--Tetiana Kachak, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ukraine

"The monograph showcases a perfect balance between historical context and content analysis of the primary childrens texts, thereby being accessible to anyone who might not be familiar with either Ukrainian or Canadian history and culture."

--Liliana Santos, University of Coimbra

"Without a doubt, wietlickis undertaking was laborious, but his prose is far from labored: erudite yet accessible, the authors writing style marries sophistication and clarity. Insofar as Next-Generation Memory delivers precisely what it promises (more, in fact), the book has every reason to sparkor, rather, sproutlong overdue dialogue and debate about writers for children/young adults who endeavor to keep memory and history alive among their readers."

--Lisa Grekul, University of British Columbia, Okanagan

"Mateusz wietlicki has created an impressive study of the role of childrens literature in transmitting cultural memory within the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada. [ ...] Through his thorough analysis of works of Canadian childrens literature, wietlicki provides a substantial contribution to memory studies, literary criticism, cultural studies, and the field of childrens literature."

--Melanie Braith, University of Winnipeg

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1:

Land of All Colours and Races?: Canadian Cossacks, Indigenous Peoples, and the Myth of the Founding Fathers of the Prairies

Chapter 2

: "Unspeakable. Unacceptable. Then and Now": The First World War and Canadian Internment Camps

Chapter 3:

Canadian Pysanky and the Survival of the Seeds of Memory

Chapter 4:

 "You filthy little Zaraza

!": Red Terror, Collectivization, and the Holodomor in Canadian Cultural Memory

Chapter 5:

 Survivors, Oppressors, Implicated Subjects, and Entangled Bystanders: The Second World War and the Holocaust

Conclusion

Appendix

Mateusz wietlicki is Assistant Professor at the University of Wrocaws Institute of English Studies and Director of the Center for Young Peoples Literature and Culture. His scholarship focuses on North American and Ukrainian childrens and YA literature and culture, memory, gender, and queer studies, as well as popular culture and film. He has published in English, Ukrainian, Polish, and Croatian.
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