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Challenging the Nationalist Hegemony : The Third Generation Displaced Persons and New Approaches to the Difficult Past

Rudling, Per Anders LU (2024) In Baltic Worlds 17(4). p.89-103
Abstract
Recent years have seen the emergence of critical studies pro-
duced by third- generation Displaced Persons (hereafter DPs),
questioning ethno-nationalist historical narrations, hegemonic
in the community. Yet, in the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, such
studies have been absent. Kassandra Luciuk’s current study is
written by someone raised in the political elite of the Ukrainian
ethno-nationalist community, in dialogue with and challeng-
ing the historical memory that her parents dedicated their lives
to promote. Her study reads like a Bildungsroman of a young
person whose eyes were opened to an ostracized rivalling leftist
community tradition. In the process, she started to question... (More)
Recent years have seen the emergence of critical studies pro-
duced by third- generation Displaced Persons (hereafter DPs),
questioning ethno-nationalist historical narrations, hegemonic
in the community. Yet, in the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, such
studies have been absent. Kassandra Luciuk’s current study is
written by someone raised in the political elite of the Ukrainian
ethno-nationalist community, in dialogue with and challeng-
ing the historical memory that her parents dedicated their lives
to promote. Her study reads like a Bildungsroman of a young
person whose eyes were opened to an ostracized rivalling leftist
community tradition. In the process, she started to question the
Nationalists monopoly of defining what it means to be Ukrainian in
Canada. Her still-unpublished 2021 dissertation sheds new light
on ultra-nationalist political violence in Canada and the central role
of Ukrainian Nationalists in establishing normative multiculturalism
in Canada. The Nationalist hegemony in the community was es-
tablished through the erection of monuments, a politicized folklore,
and the development of an elaborate victimization narrative of
Soviet genocide abroad, Canadian concentration camps and “lin-
guistic genocide” at home. Through claiming a share for Galician
Ukrainians in the settler colonialist project, Ukrainians insisted on a
special status as a “founding people” on the Canadian prairies (Less)
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Long-Distance Nationalism, Normative multiculturalism, Ukrainian diaspora, Historical Memory, Cold War, Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA), League of Ukrainian Canadians, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)
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Baltic Worlds
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17
issue
4
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15 pages
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Sodertorn University Centre for Baltic and East European Studies
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2000-2955
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English
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Reviewed work: Kassandra Larysa Luciuk, Making Ukrainian Canadians: Identity, Politics, and Power in Cold War Canada (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2021) xv+338 pp.
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  abstract     = {{Recent years have seen the emergence of critical studies pro-<br/>duced by third- generation Displaced Persons (hereafter DPs),<br/>questioning ethno-nationalist historical narrations, hegemonic<br/>in the community. Yet, in the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, such<br/>studies have been absent. Kassandra Luciuk’s current study is<br/>written by someone raised in the political elite of the Ukrainian<br/>ethno-nationalist community, in dialogue with and challeng-<br/>ing the historical memory that her parents dedicated their lives<br/>to promote. Her study reads like a Bildungsroman of a young<br/>person whose eyes were opened to an ostracized rivalling leftist<br/>community tradition. In the process, she started to question the<br/>Nationalists monopoly of defining what it means to be Ukrainian in<br/>Canada. Her still-unpublished 2021 dissertation sheds new light<br/>on ultra-nationalist political violence in Canada and the central role<br/>of Ukrainian Nationalists in establishing normative multiculturalism<br/>in Canada. The Nationalist hegemony in the community was es-<br/>tablished through the erection of monuments, a politicized folklore,<br/>and the development of an elaborate victimization narrative of<br/>Soviet genocide abroad, Canadian concentration camps and “lin-<br/>guistic genocide” at home. Through claiming a share for Galician<br/>Ukrainians in the settler colonialist project, Ukrainians insisted on a<br/>special status as a “founding people” on the Canadian prairies}},
  author       = {{Rudling, Per Anders}},
  issn         = {{2000-2955}},
  keywords     = {{Long-Distance Nationalism; Normative multiculturalism; Ukrainian diaspora; Historical Memory; Cold War; Ukrainian Canadian Congress; Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA); League of Ukrainian Canadians; Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Review}},
  number       = {{4}},
  pages        = {{89--103}},
  publisher    = {{Sodertorn University Centre for Baltic and East European Studies}},
  series       = {{Baltic Worlds}},
  title        = {{Challenging the Nationalist Hegemony : The Third Generation Displaced Persons and New Approaches to the Difficult Past}},
  url          = {{https://balticworlds.com/the-third-generation-displaced-persons-and-new-approaches-to-the-difficult-past/}},
  volume       = {{17}},
  year         = {{2024}},
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