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Umeå Studies in the Humanities 130In Transit: Aspects of Transculturalism in Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Travelsby Elisabeth Mårald |
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Price: SEK 167 + postage.
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Transculturalism refers to how cultures meet and are transcended. In Canada transcultural fiction is said to have transformed Canadian literature.
This study investigates aspects of transculturalism in accordance with Bakhtin’s dialogic theories in texts dealing with travel by the Canadian writer Janice Kulyk Keefer. The texts selected describe transcultural encounters between Canada, Ukraine, Europe and Acadie as seen through three tropes of travel: departure, passage and arrival. Keefer’s texts discuss themes like ethnicity, migration, Imagined Communities, the environmental catastrophe, patriarchy and tourism. Also the cultural assumptions inherent in the literary discourse are challenged. This is the first full-length study of texts by Keefer, who is of Ukrainian-Polish origin. She has published three novels, three collections of short stories and two collections of poems. At present she is a professor at Guelph University, Ontario, where she teaches creative writing and transcultural fiction.
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