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This study traces the development of prose, poetry, drama, and (creative) nonfiction written in English by Canadians of Ukrainian descent during the twentieth century. The thesis argues that, although Ukrainian Canadian literature has been underrepresented in Canadian and Ukrainian Canadian studies, it makes a substantial contribution to ongoing debates about the ways in which individuals (re)define their sense of self, community, history, and home in the process of writing. Chapter One provides an overview of Ukrainian Canadian history, and outlines the development of a Ukrainian Canadian literary tradition. Chapter Two examines the assimilationist rhetoric articulated by such non-Ukrainian Canadian writers as Ralph Connor, Sinclair Ross, and Margaret Laurence, as well as that of Vera Lysenko (author of Yellow Boots, 1954, the first English-language novel by a Ukrainian Canadian). Chapter Three focuses on Maara Haas's novel The Street Where I Live (1976), George Ryga's play A Letter to My Son (1981), and Andrew Suknaski's poetry (published in Wood Mountain Poems, 1976; the ghosts call you poor, 1978; and In the Name of Narid, 1981), and explores these writers' responses to the policies and practices of multiculturalism. Chapter Four identifies the shift toward transnational or transcultural discourses of individual- and group-identity formation in Janice Kulyk Keefer's and Myrna Kostash's writing, especially that which records their travels "back" to Ukraine. The central argument of the thesis is that if Ukrainian Canadians are to maintain meaningful ties to their ethnic heritage, they must constantly—if paradoxically—reinvent themselves as Ukrainians and as Canadians. In examining this paradox, the study draws parallels between Lysenko and Kulyk Keefer, both of whom rely on conventional narrative techniques in their writing and privilege nation-based models of identity that marginalize the experiences of ethnic minorities. Haas, Ryga, Suknaski, and Kostash, by contrast, experiment with multiple languages and genres: shaped, thematically and formally, by their experiences as hybrid subjects, their texts illustrate that ethnicity is less product than process; less fixed than fluid; constantly under construction and open to negotiation. The concluding chapter of the thesis, reflecting on the past and the present of Ukrainians in Canada, calls for the next generation of writers to continue re-imagining their communities by pushing the boundaries of existing language and forms.

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This thesis concerns Blessed Vasyl’ Velychkovs’kyi’s first arrest and imprisonment in the years 1945-1955. Based on the evidence in two volumes of SBU archival documents which were obtained in 2009 from the Kyiv SBU archives, it tells the story of his arrest, the investigation process, interrogation, trial and sentencing. The thesis provides the reader with a short introduction to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and its clergy in Galicia. It describes how the Soviet government, after it invaded Galicia in 1939, began to persecute the Catholic population, which was unwilling to switch to Russian Orthodoxy. A close examination of the SBU archival documents proves Velychkovs’kyi’s innocence and provides evidence of fabricated accusations, forced confessions, the use of physical and psychological abuse. These violations of criminal law and human rights were done in order to compel him to cooperate with the Soviet authorities. Velychkovs’kyi’s treatment is an example of what many prisoners who died for their faith suffered. In most cases their life stories will never be told.

This thesis describes and provides a structural analysis for depictives and wh- movement of depictives in all three East Slavic languages, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian. It gives a description of two types of depictives, those that agree in case with the argument that they modify (Case Agreement Depictives, CADs) and those that invariably show instrumental case (Instrumental Case Marked Depictives, ICMDs). This thesis proposes a structural account of these depictive structures and provides an account of the restrictions on the grammatical relations of DPs modified by ICMDs, and the absence of such restrictions on DPs modified by CADs. Moreover, it provides an account of the pied-piping requirement on wh-moved CADs in Russian and Belarusian, and the absence of such a requirement on wh-moved ICMDs. / Graduate / 0290 / amckishn@gmail.com

Esta tesis trata de profundizar en la construcción discursiva de «Europa» en el discurso mediatizado ucraniano de las élites políticas. El estudio se basa en la idea de que Europa ha sido durante mucho tiempo un importante punto geográfico de referencia socio-político y cultural de la sociedad ucraniana. Como tal, se ha convertido en un referente fundamental en el discurso público ucraniano. En consecuencia, el estudio tiene como objetivo analizar la representación de "Europa" como elemento destacado en el discurso de las élites políticas de Ucrania. En particular, el trabajo analiza qué identidades de Europa, qué percepción de Europa y qué relaciones con Europa están construyendo los políticos ucranianos en su discurso mediatizado. La tesis analiza un caso particular de dicho discurso. En concreto, se trata del popular programa de televisión de entrevistas políticas, conducido por Savik Shuster, que ha sido difundido en cuatro canales de televisión ucranianos bajo diferentes títulos desde septiembre de 2005. El estudio abarca un período posterior a la Orange Revolution en Ucrania, que conllevó la asunción del modelo europeo en el discurso público ucraniano. El marco de análisis (2005 – 2010) abarca los cuatro años de la Orange Revolution y el primer año de la presidencia de Viktor Yanukovych. Así, el estudio tiene como objetivo explorar los patrones fundamentales de la construcción discursiva de la noción de Europa, así como los posibles cambios discursivos con respecto a Europa en la post revolución ucraniana. La investigación está, en gran medida, orientada por un marco teórico y metodológico del análisis crítico del discurso (ACD). Al emplear el marco del ACD, el estudio investiga tanto el contenido del discurso analizado como las convenciones que configuran el discurso dentro de un amplio contexto socio-político. Los resultados del análisis del discurso mediatizado de las élites políticas de Ucrania han establecido que la noción de Europa es un significante muy controvertido en el discurso político ucraniano, evidenciándose en abundantes referencias a Europa en contextos múltiples, por un lado, y las representaciones competitivas de Europa , en el otro. El estudio ha identificado una amplia gama de referencias a Europa, que implican diferentes modalidades y dimensiones de las representaciones discursivas. En particular, Europa es más comúnmente conocida en situaciones de este tipo: "Europa como modelo y fuente de norma(s)”, "Europa como una civilización avanzada” y “Europa como polo geopolítico". El marco geopolítico de las referencias a Europa, en particular, sugiere que compiten representaciones de Europa, que van desde un "punto de destino" a un "supresor de Ucrania". Aparte de las representaciones competitivas de Europa, el discurso analizado se caracteriza por un alto grado de ambigüedad, que ilustra las actitudes ambivalentes y orientaciones de la política exterior de la opinión pública ucraniana, pasando por el complejo proceso de construcción de la identidad nacional. Al mismo tiempo, el análisis sugiere que las élites políticas ucranianas utilizan la ambigüedad para transmitir sus representaciones de Europa. El estudio también ha apuntado que el talk show de Savik Shuster ha contribuido a la ambigüedad de esas representaciones de Europa construidas por las élites políticas de Ucrania, en gran parte debido a las pocas restricciones en la interacción con el programa de entrevistas y a la multiplicidad de formulaciones estratégicas y referencias retóricas a Europa que, en gran medida, implican connotaciones ambiguas. / This thesis attempts to explore discursive construction of ‘Europe’ in the mediatized discourse of Ukrainian political elites. The study rests on the assumption that Europe has long been a significant geographical, socio-political and cultural reference point for Ukrainian society. As such, it has turned into a crucial signifier in Ukrainian public discourse. Accordingly, the study aims at analyzing representation of ‘Europe’ as a signifier in the discourse of Ukrainian political elites. In particular, the study analyzes what identities of Europe, perceptions of Europe and relations to Europe are being constructed by Ukrainian politicians in their mediatized discourse. The thesis examines one particular instance of mediatized discourse, that is, the case of a popular political television talk show, hosted by Savik Shuster, which has been broadcasted on four Ukrainian TV channels under different titles since September 2005. The study covers a post-Orange period in Ukraine, as the Orange Revolution brought reinvigoration of ‘European choice’ notion into Ukrainian public discourse. The time frame of analysis, 2005- 2010, embraces the four years of the ‘Orange’ leadership in power and the first year of the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych. Thus, the study aims at exploring key patterns of discursive construction of ‘Europe’, as well as possible discursive shifts with regard to ‘Europe’ in the post-Orange Ukraine. The research is largely guided by a theoretical and methodological framework of the critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach. By employing the CDA framework, the study investigates both, the content of the analyzed discourse, and conventions shaping discourse within a broader socio-political context. Analysis of the mediatized discourse of Ukrainian political elites has established that Europe is a much-contested signifier in the Ukrainian political discourse, which is evidenced by abundant references to ‘Europe’ within multiple contexts, on the one hand, and competitive representations of ‘Europe’, on the other. The study has identified a broad range of references to ‘Europe’ entailing different modes and dimensions of discursive representations. In particular, ‘Europe’ is most commonly referred to within such frames: ‘Europe as a model and a source of norm(s), ‘Europe as an advanced civilization’ and ‘Europe as a geopolitical pole’. The geopolitical framework of references to ‘Europe’ particularly suggests competing representations of ‘Europe’, ranging from a ‘destination point’ to a ‘rejector of Ukraine’. Apart from competitive representations of Europe, the analyzed discourse with regard to ‘Europe’ is characterized by a great degree of ambiguity, which illustrates ambivalent attitudes and foreign policy orientations of Ukrainian public undergoing complex process of national identity construction. At the same time, analysis suggests that Ukrainian political elites utilize the discussed ambiguity to convey their representations of Europe as commonsensical. The study has demonstrated that the analyzed discursive setting of the talk show has also contributed to the ambiguity of representations of ‘Europe’ constructed by Ukrainian political elites as the latter are largely unconstrained in their interaction in the talk show and widely resort to strategic formulations and rhetorical references to ‘Europe’, which largely entail ambiguous connotations.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2005.

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-151). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (doctoral)--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-212).

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