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Mateusz Świetlicki

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Mateusz Świetlicki, dr habil. is Director of the Center for Young People’s Literature and Culture at the University of Wrocław’s Institute of English Studies (Poland) and Vice-Dean for Student Affairs and Extramural Teaching at the Faculty of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. His most recent book, Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children’s Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory (Routledge, 2023), examines the transnational entanglements of Canada and Ukraine. He has recently co-edited Navigating Children’s Literature through Controversy: Global and Transnational Perspectives (Brill, 2023 - with Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska and Agata Zarzycka), a special issue of Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature title ...more

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	Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children's Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kiedy chłopcy zostają mężczyznami? Męskość jako projekt w prozie Serhija Żadana it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fieldwork in Ukrainian Children’s Literature by Mateusz Świetlicki (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anastasia Ulanowicz (editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Figures of Memory - Figury Pamięci (Filoteknos 11) by Mateusz Świetlicki (Goodreads Author) (editor), Dorota Michułka (editor), Macarena García-González (editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Navigating Children’s Literature through Controversy: Global and Transnational Perspectives by Mateusz Świetlicki (Goodreads Author) (editor), Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska (editor), Agata Zarzycka it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Toxic Cultures: A Companion by Cathleen Allyn Conway (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Simon Bacon (Editor), Patricia MacCormack (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE TROPICS OF RESISTANCE: Languages, genres, rhetoric by Mateusz Świetlicki (Goodreads Author) (editor), Dorota Kołodziejczyk (editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trauma kulturowa jako palimpsest. (Post)komunizm w kontekście porównawczym nowoczesności, totalitaryzmów i (post)kolonializmów by Mateusz Świetlicki (Goodreads Author) (editor), Dorota Kołodziejczyk (editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Post-communist Children's Cultures in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe by Mateusz Świetlicki (Goodreads Author) (editor), Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak (editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Land Deep in Time: Canadian Historiographic Ethnofiction by Weronika Suchacka (editor), Hartmut Lutz (editor), Mateusz Świetlicki (Goodreads Author) (contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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