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Bibliography for Janice Kulyk Keefer

Compiled by Deborah Saidero, University of Udine

Poetry

White of the Lesser Angels. Charlottetown: Ragweed Press, 1986.

Marrying the Sea. Toronto: Brick Books, 1998.

Midnight Stroll. Toronto: Exile Editions, 2006.

Fiction

The Paris-Napoli Express. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1986.

Transfigurations. Charlottetown: Ragweed Press, 1987.

Constellations. Toronto: Random House, 1988.

Travelling Ladies. Toronto: Random House, 1990.

Rest Harrow. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1992.

The Green Library. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1996.

Anna’s Goat. Victoria, BC: Ocra Book Publishers, 2000.

Thieves. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2004.

Memoir

Honey and Ashes: A Story of Family. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1998.

Critical Works

Under Eastern Eyes: A Critical Reading of Maritime Fiction. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1987.

Reading Mavis Gallant. New York: Oxford UP, 1989.

Precarious Present/Promising Future?: Ethnicities and Identities in Canadian Literature. Co-edited with Richard E. Sherwin and Danielle Schaub. Jerusalem:Magnes Press, 1996.

Two Lands, New Visions: Stories from Canada and Ukraine. Co-edited with Solomea Pavlychko. Regina: Coteau Books, 1998.

Dark Ghost in the Corner: Imagining Ukrainian-Canadian Identity. Saskatoon: Heritage Press, 2005.

Essays and Articles

“Gender, Language, Genre”. In Language in Her Eye: Writing and Gender Views by Canadian Women Writing in English. Eds. Libby Scheier, Sarah Sheard and Eleanor Wachtel. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1990. 164-171.

“Another Country.” Canadian Literature 120 (Spring 1990): 6-11.
“Divided Loyalties.” Books in Canada 19.7 (1990): 18-21.
“From Mosaic to Kaleidoscope: Out of the multicultural past comes a vision of a transcultural future.” Books in Canada 20.6 (Sept. 1991): 13-16.

“Writing and Fathers and Daughters and Death.” British Journal of Canadian Studies 7.2 (1992): 148-214.

“Kiev, November 1993.” In Writing Away: The PEN Canada Travel Anthology. Ed. Constance Rooke. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1994, 123-146.

“What I’d Be If I Were Not a Writer: Janice Kulyk Keefer.” Brick 50 (1994): 25.

“Coming across bones: historiographic ethno-fiction.” Essays on Canadian Writing 57 (Winter 1995): 84-104.

“Telling Stories in Poems: An ongoing look at the narrative element in poetry.” New Quarterly 16.2 (Summer 1996): 28-30.

“From Dialogue to Polylogue. Canadian Transcultural Writing during the Deluge.” In Difference and Community: Canadian and European Cultural Perspectives. Eds. Peter Easingwood, Konrad Gross and Lynette Hunter. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996. 57-70.

“Who’s Afraid of Josef Skvorecky? The ‘Reactionary’ Immigrant Writer in a Multicultural Canada.” In Ethnic Literature and Culture in the USA, Canada, and Australia. Ed. Igor Maver. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1996. 249-261.

“My own private Eden Mills: and a river runs through it.” Globe & Mail, 18 March, 1998.

“The East is Read: New Canadian Voices from out of the Other Europe.” In Italy and Canadian Culture: Nationalisms in the New Millennium. Eds. Anna Pia De Luca and Deborah Saidero. Udine: Forum, 2001. 141-151.

Critical Works on Janice Kulyk Keefer

Books

Saidero, Deborah. ed. Janice Kulyk Keefer: Essays on Her Works. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2010.

Essays and Articles

De Luca, Anna Pia. “‘A Story about Mansfield:’ Reading Thieves by Janice Kulyk Keefer.”  in Saidero, 2010,  151-161.

Howells, Coral Ann. “Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Travelling Ladies (for Simone Vauthier).” British Journal of Canadian Studies 7.2 (1992): 415-425.

Ledohowski, Lindy. “Fatherland/Loverland: Incestuous Nationalism in Janice Kulyuk Keefer’s The Green Library.” in Saidero, 2010, 102-119.

Mårald, Elisabeth. “In Transit: Aspects of Transculturalism in Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Travels.” In Acta Universitatis Umensis. Umea Studies in the Humanities. Uppsala: Umea Univ., 1996.

---. “Virginia Woolf as Context, Text and Intertext in Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Rest Harrow.” In From Runes to Romance: A Festschrift for Gunnar Persson on His Sixtieth Birthday. Eds. Mats Rydén, Henryk Kardela and Bengt Odenstedt. Uppsala: Swedish Science Press, 1997.

---. “Literature and Homeland: Janice Kulyk Keefer between Ukraine, Britain and Acadie.” In Migrants and the Homeland: Images, Symbols and Realities. Ed Harald Runblom. Uppsala Multiethnic Papers 44, Centre for Multiethnic Research. Uppsala: Uppsala Univ., 2000.

---. “History and Memory in Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels and ‘Bella Rabinovich/Arabella Rose’ by Janice Kulyk Keefer.” In The Evidence of Literature: Interrogating Texts in English Studies. Eds. Sven-Johan Spånberg, Henryk Kardela and Gerald Porter. Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska UP, 2000.

---. ”Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Counter-Journey to her Ukrainian Roots in Honey and Ashes: A Story of Family.” in Saidero, 2010, 120-150.

Nicholson, Colin. “’Grain of the Actual’: Janice Kulyk Keefer and Her Writing.” British Journal of Canadian Studies 7.2 (1992): 397-414.

Olinder, Britta. “Geografiction: Literary Exploration in Aritha van Herk and Janice Kulyk Keefer.” In Informal Empire?: Cultural Relations Between Canada, the United States and Europe. Eds. Peter Easingwood, Konrad Gross and Hartmut Lutz. Kiel: 1&f Verlag, 1998. 219-227.

---.. “Old and New Environments in Janice Kulyk Keefer’s The Green Library.” In Literary Environments: Canada and the Old World. Ed. Britta Olinder. Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2006. 207-17.

---. “The Poetic World of Janice Kulyk Keefer.”  in Saidero, 2010, 162-185.

Saidero, Deborah. “Retelling History: Oral Narrative and Memoir in Women’s Writing.” In Il Canada del Nuovo Secolo: gli archivi della memoria. Ed. Giovanni Dotoli. Bari:Schena, 2002: 139-149.

---. “Through the looking-Glass: The Madwoman’s Authorial Quest in Rest Harrow.”  in  Saidero, 2010, 79-101.

Schaub, Danielle. “Acadian Estrangement and Reunion: Janice Kulyk Keefer’s ‘April Showers.’” In Tricks with a Glass: Writing Ethnicity in Canada. Eds. Rocio G. Davis and Rosalia Baena. Amsterdam: Rodopi: 2000.

Tarnawsky, Maxim. “What is Told in The Green Library: History, Institutions, Language (Portrayals of the Ethnic Ukrainian Community in Canada and the United States).” Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal 31.3 (1999): 104-115.

Reviews

Archer, Bert. “Sententious Park.” Rev. of The Green Library. Books in Canada 26.1 (Feb. 1997): 17.

Clayton, Cherry. “Divided Loyalties: Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Travels Through Life and Literature Prove that You Can Come Home Again.” Books in Canada 19.6 (1990): 18-21.

---. “Finding the Other Family: A Profile of J.K. Keefer.” Books in Canada 27.8 (1998): 40-1.

Diakunchak, Yuriy. “A new memoir by Ukrainian-Canadian Kulyk Keefer.” Rev. of Honey and Ashes. The Ukrainian Weekly, 28 Feb., 1999, http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1999/099916.shtml

Govier, Katherine. “A Trip to the Old World’s Dark Side.” Rev. of The Green Library. The Toronto Star, 6 July, 1996.

Howells, Coral Ann. “Writing Women.” Rev. of Rest Harrow. Canadian Literature 142/143 (Fall/Winter 1994): 221-223.

---. “Isolation Helps Nurture Keefer’s Writing.” Globe & Mail (Metro Edition) 28 C5.

---. “Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Twin Speaks.” Images 9.5 (1992): 54.

Itani, Frances. “Tender tale of family unravels in flashes.” Rev. of The Green Library. The Ottawa Citizen, 7 July, 1996.

MacFarlane, Susan. “Train & Balloon.” Rev. of Travelling Ladies. Canadian Literature 132 (Spring 1992): 209-210.

Naves, Elaine Kalman. “Heavy freight tips Green Library from tragedy into melodrama.” Rev. of The Green Library. The Gazette, 20 July, 1996.

Panofsky, Ruth. Rev. of Marrying the Sea. Quill & Quire 64.9 (1998): 56.

Porter, Helen Fogwill. “Lovers of Sorts.” Rev. of Rest Harrow. Books in Canada 21.8 (Nov. 1992): 44-45.

Rigelhof, T.F. “Mad About Mansfield.” Rev. of Thieves. Globe & Mail Feb. 7, 2004: D3.

Robb, Nancy. “Kulyk Keefer’s Rising Star: Five Books in Three Genres in One Year.” Quill & Quire 53.7 (1987): 69-70.

Sacuta, Norm. “Keefer’s ordinary truly extraordinary.” Rev. of The Green Library. The Edmonton Journal, 28 July, 1996.

Steinberg, Sybil. Rev. of Travelling Ladies. Publishers Weekly, 14 Dec.,1990: 54.

Turbide, Diane. Rev. of The Green Library. Maclean’s, 9 Sept., 1996: 52.

Interviews

Balan, Jars. “Interview with J.K. Keefer.” In Other Solitudes: Canadian Multicultural Fictions.” Ed. Linda Hutcheon and Marion Richmond. Toronto: U of Toronto P,1990. 290-296.

Clayton, Cherry. “Janice Kulyk Keefer Interviewed by Cherry Clayton.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 34.1 (1999): 183-197.

Ferri, Laura. “Projecting Katherine Mansfield.” Books in Canada 31.9 (Dec. 2002): 23-5.

Kainer, Tara. “Fictions of Contentment: An Interview with J.K. Keefer.” Quarry 42.1 (1993): 85-94.

Saidero, Deborah “Interview with Janice Kulyhk Keefer.” In Saidero, 2010, 186-206.

Spalding, Esta. “A Conversation with J.K. Keefer.” Brick 55 (1996): 31-38.

Zakydalsky, Oksana. “Interview: Governor General’s Award Nominee Janice Kulyk Keefer.” The Ukrainian Weekly, 10 Nov., 1996,

http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1996/459611.shtml

Updated November 17 2016 by Student & Academic Services

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