У статті конкретизуються методологічні засади поетики у прозі канадських азійських письменників-іммігрантів, їхня унікальна ідентичність, набута на північноамериканському континенті, яка водночас органічно
синтезована з культурою та ідентичністю їхніх прабатьківщин і поєднана концептом історичної пам'яті. Цей синтез є оригінальним через
суттєву несхожість східної та західної культур. Отже, риси синкретизму
аналізованого культурного утворення стають назагал новим феноменом у
поліетнічній літературі Канади. У статті розглядаються тексти романів Їнг Шен, Кім Тхюї, Джой Когава, Майкла Ондаатже.
The paper highlights the development of literature related to the historical memory concept
of Canadian immigrants from Asian countries. It covers the period of the late 20th — first
decades of the 21st century. The complex of problems, analyzed and structured within the
semantic field of the modern historical memory concept, is often applicable both to Canada
and Ukraine. The research broadens the knowledge of Canadian literature introducing the
names of researchers and writers new to Ukrainian literary studies. The paper overviews the
interpretations of Canadian Asian immigrants’ dispositions within the paradigm of modern
arts and humanities. The focus is on the issues of double identity, the coherence of ethnic
and North American mentality. The researcher generalizes the poetical aspects of the works
by Ying Chen, Kim Thui, Joy Kogawa, Michael Ondaatje. Attention has been paid to the
definition of discursive parameters, which allow shaping the concept of historical memory
in ‘mosaic’ Canadian society; the issues of identities; the main markers of Canadian historical
strategies; and versatile patterns of literary texts.
The participation of Canada in the global dialog, which involves its culture and literature,
plays probably the most important role in the debate on Canadian polyethnic literature.
Regional, national, and international features demand some combined definition.
The research explicates modern historical memory strategies in the context of conventional
territory with its specific spatial and temporal characteristics. The author demonstrates the
main local views on peculiarities of the Canadian literary process of the 2nd half of the
20th — early 21st century and analyzes literary texts. All the novels show profound connection
between representatives of Canadian literature, who may seem essentially different but
manifest temporal and subjective similarity.
The paper lists the names of authors working within the ‘double vision’ formula suggested
by N. Frye. This approach focuses on the elements of North American culture pertaining
to Canadian multicultural world structure as well as traditional cultures of the writers’
ancestral homelands. The paper also considers the generation paradigm, structured on
the basis of social and historical algorithms and psychological markers. The types of generational
modes (Kim Thuy, Michael Ondaatje) in literature were combined through a common
denominator — canadianness — based on a double identity.
