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at home with her family, the traveller still has to face more doubt and confusion as her
experiences can not be properly communicated even to her mother. Mother examines
the photographs but does not recognise what is shown in them, listens to her
daughter’s story and does not find satisfactory answers to her query. What and
where, then, is one’s home? Keefer does not provide a definite answer to this question
but rather suggests that
Rest, refuge, satisfaction – none of these fit what I feel about Staromischyna, or
about the Ontario to which I have returned. Perhaps home is only this: inhabiting
uncertainty, the arguments fear picks with desire. Not belonging but longing – that
we may live in the present, without craving the –past or forcing the future. 13
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Keefer Janice Kulyk. The Sacredness of Bridges: writing Immigrant Experience //Literary
Pluralities, ed. by C. Verduyn. – Toronto: Broadview Press, 1998.
Keefer Janice Kulyk. Honey and Ashes: A Story of Family, 1998.
Marald Elisabeth. In Transit: Aspects of Transculturalism in Janice Kulyk Keefer’s, 1996.
Bissoondath Neil. Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada. – Toronto: Penguin
Books Canada, 1994.
REFERENCES
1 Marald Elisabeth. In Transit: Aspects of Transculturalism in Janice Kulyk Keefer’s
Travels. – Umea: Umea University Printing Office, 1996, p. 4.
2 Ibid, p. 166.
3 Keefer Janice Kulyk. Honey and Ashes: A Story of Family. 1998, p. 7.
4 Bissoondath Neil. Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada. 1994, p. 27.
5 Keefer Janice Kulyk. Honey and Ashes: A Story of Family. 1998, p. 4.
6 Ibid, pp. 13–14.
7 Ibid, p. 23.
8 Ibid, p. 17.
9 Keefer Janice Kulyk. The Sacredness of Bridges”: writing Immigrant Experience //
Literary Pluralities, ed. by C. Verduyn. – Toronto: Broadview Press, 1998, p. 108.
10 Keefer Janice Kulyk. Honey and Ashes: A Story of Family. 1998, p. 232.
11 Ibid, p. 291.
12 Ibid, p. 309.
13 Ibid, p. 328.