Reading
The reading I did was an essay published by St. Thomas More College's Heritage Press at the University of Saskatchewan. The article is one of the more recent publications of the Prairie Centre for Ukrainian Heritage (PCUH) Heritage Press lecture series by Janice Kulyk-Keefer, entitled Dark Ghost in the Corner: Imagining Ukrainian-Canadian Identity (2005). Kulyk-Keefer moved me in a lot of ways with the intensity and insights within her work, and I very much appreciated her perspective on the Ukrainian Canadian as the upholder of cultural myths about contemporary Ukraine. More on this when I have the publication in front of me. There are a few sentiments conveyed that I would like to extract and examine in my blog within the context of direct quotations, and I will do this tomorrow.
Blogging
Onto the Ukrainian Canadian blogs, here is a list of the blogs easily searchable under "Ukrainian Canadian" on Google, hyphenated and unhyphenated:
- Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies Blog - University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
- Nash Holos blog - Vancouver
- Ukrainian Canadian Rare Books blog - Ebay
- Ukrainian Canadian School Board Forum blog - Toronto
- Ukrainian Canadians blog section - International
- Ukrainian Community Websites (some are blogs, some are not) - Quebec
Nothing strong stands out in purpose or supervision outside of the CUCS blog, and I'm not just saying that! There is overall a lack of purpose, focus, and academic or objective perspective in many of these projects. I will refer my readership (!) to our discussions in the past about the shortcomings of blogs in this way, and to their ephemeral nature if no one participates.
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