Land Deep in Time

Dagmara Drewniak, Ph.D., teaches American and Canadian literature at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Her research interests include: literature by immigrants from Poland and Eastern Europe, multiculturalism in English Canadian literature, images of Central and Eastern Europe in Canada and Canadian literature, life-writing, Jewish and Holocaust studies, migrant and postcolonial literature.Dr Weronika Suchacka is an assistant professor at the University of Szczecin, Poland, and teaches Canadian literature at the University of Warsaw, Poland.Prof em. Dr Hartmut Lutz chaired Canadian and American Studies at the University of Greifswald (1993-2011) and the University of Szczecin (2012/13). His books include William Goldings Prosawerk (1975), "Indianer" und "Native Americans" (1985), Contemporary Challenges (1991), Approaches (2002), The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab (2005), Contemporary Achievements (2015), Indianthusiasm (2020) etc. He won numerous scholarships and honors and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2021.

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.

The volume examines Janice Kulyk Keefer's idea of historiographic ethnofiction, suggesting it as an innovative literary concept for addressing and analyzing ethnic/diasporic literature in Canada.Literary exploration of what remains deep in ethnic memory in the land that remains deep in time

The volume examines Janice Kulyk Keefer's idea of historiographic ethnofiction, suggesting it as an innovative literary concept for addressing and analyzing ethnic/diasporic literature in Canada.