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Bloodlines, A journey into Eastern Europe, by Myrna Kostash, Douglas personal narrative, and political A I

& Mcintyre, 256 pp., hardcover analysis.
Over the course of six years,

. . Kostash travels throughout Eastern
ITTING ON a bus in Vancouver | notice a large Europe witnessing the political
message scrawled ona brick wall: the zone of con- machinations of her homeland and

sciousness. It sounds profound, but I’m not sure the effects upon ordinary and
sometimes extraordinary citizens.

what It means. She talks te fellow writers and
I'm quite sure, however, that it is i ; intellectuals, some of them engag-
not some coded message put there : ed ina lifelong pursuit of civil lib-
by Vancouver's underground in- ' oe erty.
tellectuals. : The countries she visits include
Unimpressed, | return to reading : ; Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, : Rp
Bloodlines, The graffiti reminds me : ee aa) < Poland and the Ukraine. a
of a line in the book. ; RNa Some of her subjects are jaded i a
Author Myrna Kostash is : Lg by their political struggles, some i BURNABY VILLA HOTEL
describing the Cyril script co-opted. But pone is willing to yt OPEN eer :
adopted/invente: Stavs: . commit his or her ethnicity te ; : j MON. « FRE 10-8 i 5
Every time { write I out, lenter Barbara Black oblivion. k lke th : nd ASAT, 10-6 » SUN, 12.5 MEA
some other zone of awareness.” It may look like the state is :
The script is, in her words, the BOOK REVIEW “winning” by commiting its citi-
peculiar acquisition of a separate = which asks ‘‘How does the ‘old zens to clreary, subsistence lives,
race. country’ live on in the citizen of
If you have ever studied a se- the new?" It is part travelogue, See Time-frames page 43
cond language or culture you wil! TT SS —
know that that other zone, in fact ‘
many other zones, of awareness
exists; that, to think and speak in
another language is to enter that
zone.
_These zones are the unerasable
collective memories of genera-
tions. Some Canadians probably
think they don’t occupy one any
more.
Kostash does. She is one of our
hyphenated countrywomen, a
Ukrainian-Canadian,
Her book is a travelling question

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