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EDITORS" FOREWORD Tuteks "Cultural Appropriation in Two Short Stories by Alice Munro: "Five Points’ and the ‘Albanian Virgin’ — Echoes of the Balkans” seeks to assess how cultural information shifts travelling from one culture to another and when it is given a fictional dimension. The paper also examines how the resulting cultural constructs about Croatians and Albanians surface in two stories by Alice Munro. Supported by both Canadian and Hungarian archival evidence, in his paper entitled ““The New Mecca of Immigrants’: Hungarian Emigration to Canada and the Role of Immigration Propaganda”, Balazs Venkovits juxtaposes the Canadian early 20" century and post-W WI “Last Best West” campaign directed at Eastern and Central European immigrants to settle the Prairies and the Hungarian efforts to prevent emigration as reflected by in the Light of a European Immigrant] and other contemporary sources. Moving from Europe to the Asian continent, Maria Palla explores the three female protagonists’ loyalties to their homeland and hostland in her paper entitled “The South Asian Canadian Diaspora: A Transnational Community and its Literary Representation in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?” Through the context of Badami’s novel, the effects of the Komagata Maru incident of 1914, the Partition of India in 1947, and the bombing of Air India flight 182 in 1985 on the diasporic community are also examined. Adopting Bhabha’s notion of ‘third space’ for the mass media, Anushray Singh’s “Third Space: An Intercultural Negotiation of South Asian Diaspora in Canada” investigates ‘intercultural belongings’ and conflicts resulting from cultural encounters in the context of the biggest visible minority group, the South Asian diaspora in Canada. Last in this block, in the Korean- Canadian context, Judit Nagy reflects on the intercultural aspects of courtship, marriage and romance in her paper “Male-female Relationships Across Cultures in Ann Y. K. Choi’s Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety (2016)”. In her analysis of Ann Y. K. Choi’s novel, she applies Min-sun Kim’s cultural communication theory to account for the behaviour of Choi’s protagonists. The next two papers focus on issues related to Quebec. In particular, Dervila Cooke’s “Growing Together or Apart? Minorities in Québec Documentary on Immigration and School” focuses on the issue of immigrant schoolchildren in Québec as reflected in Claude Godbout’s documentary, La Génération 101 and other similar cinematographic examples such as Aloisio’s Les Enfants de la Loi 101, Groulx’s La Classe de Madame Lise, or Bertucelli’s La Cour de Babel. The paper is illustrative of the differing perspectives immigrants have on Québec society and its values. In “Maitres chez qui? The Parti Québécois’ Cultural Geography and its Impact on the Idea of Indigenous Territorial Sovereignty Following the Quiet Revolution”, Marie-Claude Gill-Lacroix highlights how the cultural geography created by the Quiet Revolution impacted the self-determination of Québec’s Indigenous inbabitants. +8 +
