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Lisa Grekul. Kalyna's Song.

Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Lisa Grekul. Kalyna's Song. Regina: Coteau Books, 2003.474 pp. $14.95 sc.

Kalyna's Song is Lisa Grekul's first novel. It began its life as Grekul's Master's thesis, and she subsequently revised it for publication while working simultaneously on her doctorate. Both Kalyna's Song and Grekul's academic work examine how members of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada use the arts to represent and shape an understanding of what it means to claim to be Ukrainian here, often generations after the initial moment of immigration. As a descendent of Ukrainian immigrants who homesteaded on the Canadian prairie, this topic hits close to home for Grekul, and much of the novel appears to be autobiographical. Its protagonist, Colleen Lutzak, whose grandparents arrived in Canada from Ukraine, lives in small-town Alberta and studies...

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