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Newfoundland in contemporary writing | 19.04.2023

Data: 19.04.2023
Czas rozpoczęcia: 13.15-14.45
Miejsce: Reymonta 4, aula 037

Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk, Ph.D

The lecture offers a succinct overview of literary representations of Newfoundland articulated by contemporary authors who identify as Newfoundlanders. Firstly, it presents a concise history of the Rock and its union with Canada. Then, it proceeds to delineate the themes that pervade the literature of the said province, such as settler nostalgia, the extinction of the Beothuk, the nation's divide over 1949 Newfoundland's Confederation with Canada, the collapse of coal mining, the disappearance of fishing communities, the economic crisis in the wake of 1992 cod moratorium, or the ecological concerns that surround off-shore oil rigs. The writers taken under scrutiny are primarily, though not exclusively, Michael Crummey, Lisa Moore, and Wayne Johnston. Last but not the least, the lecture also touches upon the issues of social and economic justice, or rather its lack, addressed in the fiction of the youngest generation of Newfoundland writers, Megan Gail Coles being the prime example.

Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk, Ph.D., is an assistant at the University of Białystok, Poland. Her publications oscillate around the literary representations of motherhood and literary geography in the North American context. She is a member of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies and an author of several articles. She has also co-edited two volumes of collected essays The Fantastic and Realism (2019) and Jews of Eastern Poland: Between Odessa and Vilnius (2019). In 2015 she was awarded a scholarship from the Corbridge Trust in Cambridge. In April – July 2022 she was a Visiting Fellow at The Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University. Her current research project investigates the literary representations of Newfoundland.

Wydarzenie można zaliczyć w ramach programu OSA:

  • Opiekun: dr Anna Wyrwisz
  • Liczba godzin OSA: 2 godziny
  • Forma zaliczenia: sporządzenie krótkiej notatki w języku angielskim lub polskim (max. 500-600 znaków), dotyczącej tematyki poruszanej podczas wykładu i przesłanie jej dr Annie Wyrwisz do 3 maja.
Wydarzenie kierowane jest do Studentek i Studentów wszystkich kierunków w Instytucie Amerykanistyki i Studiów Polonijnych.