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- Title
"...No Longer Quite Ukrainian But Not Quite Canadian Either...": The Ukrainian Immigrant in Canadian English-Language Literature.
- Authors
APONIUK, NATALIA
- Abstract
Arguably, the first work of Canadian fiction in English to depict Ukrainians was Ralph Connor's The Foreigner, a Tale of Saskatchewan, published in 1909. Since then, some of Canada's major writers, including Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, Morley Callaghan, Sinclair Ross, and W. O. Mitchell have depicted Ukrainians in their works. Gabrielle Roy, writing in French, also created Ukrainian characters. Beginning at least in 1954 with the publication of Vera Lysenko's Yellow Boots, writers of Ukrainian origin began to break through into the pantheon of CanLit. The publication of works by writers of Ukrainian origin increased dramatically following the adoption of Multiculturalism and the resultant infusion of government funding into the "culture industry." This article considers the depiction of the Ukrainian immigrant in two plays—Paper Wheat, written by a collective, and Gwen Pharis Ringwood's A Fine Coloured Easter Egg; in several novels—Frederick Philip Grove's Fruits of the Earth, Arthur G. Storey's Prairie Harvest, and Vera Lysenko's Yellow Boots; and in Gabrielle Roy's short story "The Well of Dunrea."
- Subjects
FRUITS of the Earth (Book); FINE Coloured Easter Egg, A (Play); PRAIRIE Harvest (Book); RINGWOOD, Gwen Pharis; GROVE, Frederick Philip, 1879-1948; STOREY, Arthur G.; IMMIGRANTS -- Fiction; UKRAINIAN Canadians in literature
- Publication
Canadian Ethnic Studies, 2015, Issue 4/5, p49
- ISSN
0008-3496
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/ces.2015.0046