Shifting Statuses and Lasting Codes in Janice Kulyk Keefer’s The Green Library

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In most of her writings, mainly in the novel The Green Library (1996), the Ukrainian-Canadian writer Janice Kulyk Keefer offers what can  be seen as a collection of case-studies of the forming, dissolving and re-forming in colonial and postcolonial history, of patterns of class belonging and class perception. By dissecting the concept of class into its dynamic components, Kulyk Keefer shows how movements and changes due to the passing of time, the forming of new nations and the massive migration from country to country disclose deeply embedded, albeit partly unconscious, elements of thorny and even dangerous classimages.

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