The anniversary issue – Canadian and Quebec studies: developments and challenges / Le numéro anniversaire – Études canadiennes et québécoises : accomplissements et défis TransCanadiana Polish Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue Polonaise d’Études Canadiennes The anniversary issue – Canadian and Quebec studies: developments and challenges / Le numéro anniversaire – Études canadiennes et québécoises : accomplissements et défis 10. 2018 Poznań 2018 Rada Wydawnicza / Advisory Board / Comité de Rédaction Maciej Abramowicz (Université Marie Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin); Klaus-Dieter Ertler (Université de Graz); Yannick Gasquy-Resch (Université Aix-Marseille); Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa); Sherrill Grace (University of British Columbia); Thomson Highway (Writer, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Brandon University); Serge Jaumain (Université Libre de Bruxelles); Smaro Kambourelli (University of Toronto); Józef Kwaterko (Université de Varsovie); Peter Kyloušek (Université Masaryk, Brno); Larissa Lai (University of British Columbia); Norman Ravvin (Concordia University; Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, Montreal); Anna Reczyńska (Jagiellonian University, Kraków); Radosław Rybkowski (Jagiellonian University, Kraków); Eugenia Sojka (University of Silesia); Teresa Tomaszkiewicz (Université Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań) Recenzenci naukowi / Reviewers / Rapporteurs Gerardo Acerenza (Université de Trente) ; Wojciech Charchalis (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) ; Dagmara Drewniak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań); Gilles Dupuis (Université de Montréal) ; Michał P. Garapich (University of Roehampton) ; Petr Kyloušek (Université Masaryk, Brno) ; Rūta Šlapkauskaitė (Vilnius University) ; Piotr Wróbel (University of Toronto) Redaktorzy naczelni / Editors-in-Chief / Rédacteurs-en-chef Agnieszka Rzepa Redaktorzy odpowiedzialni za numer / Guest Editors / Rédacteurs responsables du numéro Ewelina Berek, Agnieszka Rzepa Redaktorzy odpowiedzialni za biuletyn / Newsletter editors / Rédacteurs du Bulletin Ewelina Berek, Małgorzata Czubińska Siedziba redakcji: Centrum Badań Kanadyjskich, gabinet C 3.30 Katedra Filologii Angielskiej UMK ul. Bojarskiego 1, 87-100 Toruń E-mail: [email protected] Poznań 2018 Projekt okładki i stron tytułowych: Zenon Dyrszka, Agnieszka Frydrychewicz Skład, łamanie i korekta: Pracownia Wydawnicza WA UAM TABLE DES MATIÈRES / / TABLE OF CONTENTS : Introduction / Avant-Propos ....................................................... 7 POLISH ASSOCIATION FOR CANADIAN STUDIES: CELEBRATING TWENTY YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT / L'ASSOCIATION POLONAISE D'ÉTUDES CANADIENNES FÊTE SES VINGT ANS D'EXISTENCE Looking Back, Looking Forward: Polish Association for Canadian Studies and Canadian Studies in Poland ............................................ 11 Józef Kwaterko – Professeure Nancy Burke : penser le Canada entre les cultures .............................................................................................. 27 Articles Józef Kwaterko – Clivages et convergences : les études littéraires québécoises sous le signe de la Caraïbe ............................................ 33 Anna Branach-Kallas, Piotr Sadkowski – Le Canada dans la Grande Guerre à la lumière des approches anglophones et francophones au début du XXIe siècle .......................................................................... 48 Weronika Suchacka – “The [C]rossing of [B]orders” and Intersections: Presenting and Practicing Intersectionality in Marusya Bociurkiw’s Works ................................................................................................ 68 Anna Reczyńska – Benedykt Heydenkorn: Life History of an Emigrant Written into the Multicultural Canada ............................................... 100 Marta Kijewska-Trembecka – Portuguese Diaspora. The Portuguese Emigration to Canada: From the Sea to the City ............................... 113 6 Table des matières / Table of contents NANCY BURKE BEST M.A. THESIS AWARDS / PRIX NANCY BURKE POUR LES MEILLEURES THÈSES DE MAÎTRISE Michał Kapis – Orality in Contemporary Canadian and South African Aboriginal Prose ............................................................................... 133 Comptes rendus / Reviews Anna Żurawska – Katarzyna Wężyk, Kanada. Ulubiony kraj świata. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Agora, 2017, 352 pages. ISBN 978-83- 268-2559-0. ....................................................................................... 167 Dagmara Drewniak – “From Life Writing to Fiction Writing: Polish- Canadian Connections in Recent Publications in Poland and in Canada” (Lucjan Krause, From the Vistula to the Canadian Great Lakes: A Life’s Journey. Toruń: Nicolaus Copernicus University Press, 2017. 245 pages. ISBN 97883-231-3890-7; Kasia Jaronczyk and Małgorzata Nowaczyk, Polish(ed) Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction. Toronto – Buffalo – Lancaster (UK): Guernica Editions, 2017. 214 pages. ISBN 978-1-77183-144-4). .................................... 174 BULLETIN DE L’APEC / PACS NEWSLETTER SUBMISSIONS / SOUMISSION D'ARTICLES Ewelina Berek Université de Silésie Agnieszka Rzepa Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań INTRODUCTION / AVANT-PROPOS In 2018 the Polish Association for Canadian Studies is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its establishment, and TransCanadiana the 10th anniversary of the publication of its first issue. The anniversary issue of the journal opens, therefore, with the section titled “Polish Association for Canadian Studies: Celebrating Twenty Years of Achievement”. The section comprises an essay reviewing the accomplishments of PACS and its members; and an essay by Prof. Józef Kwaterko, a founding and highly accomplished member of PACS, commemorating Prof. Nancy Burke, whose professional achievement and personal engagement and encouragement were crucial for the establishment of the organization. The part that follows includes six articles which reflect some of the diversity of research undertaken by Polish Canadianists: five articles by established scholars and one article by a budding Canadianist based on his M.A. thesis, which won special mention in the Nancy Burke best M.A. thesis contest for the year 2017. The first three articles focus on different aspects of Canadian francophone and anglophone literatures. Józef Kwaterko analyses the contribution made by Caribbean literary critics to Quebecois literary studies; Anna Branach-Kallas and Piotr Sadkowski trace the most recent trends in research on Canada’s participation in and commemoration of the First World War since the beginning of the 21st century; Weronika Suchacka offers a broad-ranging analysis of intersectionality in the work of Marusya Bociurkiw. The closing two articles, on the other hand, focus on issues related to lives of diasporic communities in Canada: Anna Reczyńska recounts the life and accomplishments of a prominent member of the Canadian Polish community, Benedykt Heydenkorn, while Marta Kijewska-Trembecka reviews the history of the immigration of the Portuguese into Canada. The article by Michał Kapis, based on his M.A. thesis, offers a comparative perspective on “oralized” literature of indigenous peoples of Canada and South Africa focusing specifically on two novels: Ravensong by Lee Maracle and The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda. 8 INTRODUCTION / AVANT-PROPOS We are grateful to the Embassy of Canada to Poland in Warsaw for the financial assisstance which made the publication of the anniversary issue of TransCanadiana possible. / Nous tenons à remercier l'ambassade du Canada en Pologne à Varsovie pour son aide financière grâce à laquelle la publication du numéro anniversaire de la revue TransCanadiana a été possibile. POLISH ASSOCIATION FOR CANADIAN STUDIES: CELEBRATING TWENTY YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT / L'ASSOCIATION POLONAISE D'ÉTUDES CANADIENNES FÊTE SES VINGT ANS D'EXISTENCE Agnieszka Rzepa Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań with Anna Branach-Kallas, Małgorzata Czubińska, Dagmara Drewniak and Tomasz Soroka LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: POLISH ASSOCIATION FOR CANADIAN STUDIES AND CANADIAN STUDIES IN POLAND 2018 is a year of multiple anniversaries for Polish Canadianists. In 1998 the Polish Association for Canadian Studies (PACS) was created; in 2008 the first issue of the PACS journal, TransCanadiana, appeared. The last twenty years were marked by vigorous activity of Polish Canadianists in their multiple roles of researchers, teachers, and event organisers. Given our rather humble beginnings, we can be proud of our achievement in the area of Canadian Studies and of the instrumental role of PACS in the integration of the Polish Canadianist community and the popularisation and encouragment of Canadian Studies in Poland. Canadian studies are a relatively new area of academic inquiry. It started to develop in earnest in Canada only in the 1960s and 70s. Polish scholars followed suit in the 1980s, and as a result by the early 1990s Poland had a handful of scholars focusing on different areas of Canadian studies, and several universities were offering Canada- and Quebec-focused courses. Many of those scholars were among founding members of PACS, and have contributed to the further development and institutionalisation of Canadian Studies. Today, the fields represented by the majority of the Polish Canadianist community still reflect the research interests of those early enthusiasts: literature—both anglophone and francophone, history, political science, sociology, translation studies. Likewise, universities with Canadian or Quebec studies departments and centres are predominantly those