Paper Title :Literary Canon Revisited: Images of Remote Countries in the Literature of Central and Eastern Europe

Author :Jana Javorcikova

Article Citation :Jana Javorcikova , (2020 ) " Literary Canon Revisited: Images of Remote Countries in the Literature of Central and Eastern Europe " , International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS) , pp. 96-99, Volume-6,Issue-1

Abstract : The present paper focuses on new perspective of literary canon of the literature written in English and offers an analysis of the genesis of the view of Canada in émigré/diaspora literature of Central and Eastern Europe’s long-silenced and neglected authors. The corpus includes Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, Rumanian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Croatian authors. Their experience and perception of Canada, as I try to show, varies according to the reasons that brought them to Canada. It also, however, changes across decades: the pre-1989 authors focused more on physical descriptions, whereas more recent post-1989 and especially the “internet-era” authors willingly withdraw from such a didactic aim and tend more towards sharing experience. The aim of the research is to point out the importance of attention paid to traditionally marginalised voices in literature. Keywords - Canada, “Maple Leaf”, Identity, Diaspora, Émigré, Immigrant Literature

Type : Research paper

Published : Volume-6,Issue-1

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