In Transit: Aspects of Transculturalism in Janice Kulyk Keefer's Travels Tapa dura - 1996

Uppsala: Umea University, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. Blue cover with black lettering and red and blue map. Clean, unmarked pages. Cover shows moderate wear to edges and a small crease across corner at back. 182 pages. "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 text by Keefer, who is of Ukrainian-Polish origin" -- back cover. BAY 36.