Land Deep in Time

Canadian Historiographic Ethnofiction

Weronika Suchacka, Hartmut Lutz, Weronika Suchacka, Hartmut Lutz

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9783847116332
• eBook ISBN: 9783847016335
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Comics & Graphic Novels Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This volume brings together a group of most highly acclaimed Canadian writers and distinguished international experts on Canadian literature to discuss what potential Janice Kulyk Keefer's concept of "historiographic ethnofiction" has for ethnic writing in Canada. The collection builds upon Kulyk Keefer's idea but also moves beyond it by discussing such realms of the concept as its ethics and aesthetics, multiple and multilayered sites, generic intersections, and diasporic (con-)texts. Thus, focusing on Canadian historiographic ethnofiction, "Land Deep in Time" is the first study to define and explore a type of writing which maintains a marked presence in Canadian literature but has not yet been recognized as a separately identifiable genre.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Hartmut Lutz (University of Greifswald / University of Szczecin): Preface
• A Bellini in Kyiv by Janice Kulyk Keefer
• Weronika Suchacka (University of Szczecin): Introduction
• Part I: Ethics and Aesthetics of Canadian Historiographic Ethnofiction
• Janice Kulyk Keefer (University of Guelph): Chapter 1 – Simple Complications: Towards an Ethics of Historiographic Ethnofiction
• Norman Ravvin (Concordia University in Montreal): Chapter 2 – Coming Across Bones at Radzanów: A Consideration of Canadian Writing, Ethnicity, and an Unmarked Burial Ground
• Jutta Zimmermann (University of Kiel): Chapter 3 – Reading Contemporary South Asian Canadian Fiction as ˋHistoriographic Ethnofiction'
• Part II: Transcultural Perspectives on Canadian Historiographic Ethnofiction
• Anna Żurawska (Nicolaus Copernicus University): Chapter 4 – Historiographic Ethnofiction in Quebec and Acadian literature: The Case Study of Pélagie-la-Charrette by Antonine Maillet
• Ewelina Berek (University of Silesia in Katowice): Chapter 5 – Historiographic Ethnofiction à la québécoite: Régine Robin's The Wanderer
• Uwe Zagratzki (University of Szczecin): Chapter 6 – Scot-“Land Deep in Time”: Alistair MacLeod's Prose from Nova Scotia
• Joseph Pivato (Athabasca University): Chapter 7 – Italian-Canadian Literary Contributions to Canadian Historiographic Ethnofiction
• Part III: Canadian Historiographic Ethnofiction Across Cultures and Genres
• Mateusz Świetlicki (University of Wrocław): Chapter 8 – Some Place to Belong: Home and Homelessness in Gabriele Goldstone’s Historiographic Ethnofiction for Young Readers
• Lisa Grekul (University of British Columbia): Chapter 9 – Unmasking Trauma and Complicity: Historio/graphic Healing in Patti LaBoucane-Benson's The Outside Circle
• Albert Rau (University of Cologne): Chapter 10 – Historiographic Ethnofiction Reflected in Canadian Drama – Jason Sherman: Where is My Tree?
• Agnieszka Rzepa (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań): Chapter 11 – Beyond Historiographic Ethnofiction: Interfaces of Ethnicity/Race and History in Recent Canadian Diasporic Life Writing
• Dagmara Drewniak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań): Chapter 12 – “A geography of the self and the landscape of otherness”: Writing Mennonite and Eastern European Ethnicity in Connie T. Braun’s Memoirs
• Part IV: Sites of Canadian Historiographic Ethnofiction
• Janne Korkka (University of Turku): Chapter 13 – Canadian Mennonite Narratives as Historiographic Ethnofictions of Space
• Cathy C. Waegner (University of Siegen): Chapter 14 – Transnational Ethnofiction: Gerald Vizenor and Heirs of the Fur Trade
• George Elliott Clarke (University of Toronto): Chapter 15 – Is “Historiographic Ethnofiction” Perpetually Tripped Up by Facts? Spy Invisible Blackness in Michael Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter; Audit Muted History in Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues
• Authors' Biographical Notes
• Index