Mateusz Swietlicki
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mateusz Swietlicki is involved.
Book series
Title
The Moving Canon(s) of Slavic Children’s Literature
Edited by Mateusz Swietlicki, Dorota Michułka and Zofia Zasacka
This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars of children’s literature and culture, who apply various theoretical perspectives to capture transcultural and interdisciplinary links between the global and local canons. The chapters are divided into three thematic clusters: School… read moreArticles
2026 Chapter 1. Children of revolutions and war: Citizenship and agency in Ukrainian post-2014 children’s and young adult literature Geopolitics and Activism in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Fenech, Giuliana and Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak (eds.), pp. 16–27 | Chapter
Looking back at the three decades of Ukraine’s regained independence demonstrates that the country’s road to building a civil society has been turbulent. Between 1991 and 2023 Ukraine had two major revolutions which were the aftermath of electoral fraud and the controversial decision of President… read more
2026 Chapter 2. Children’s literature in the contemporary Ukrainian school canon: Transformations and reorientations The Moving Canon(s) of Slavic Children’s Literature, Swietlicki, Mateusz, Dorota Michułka and Zofia Zasacka (eds.), pp. 39–55 | Chapter
This chapter showcases the changing position of children’s literature in the Ukrainian school canon in the last decade. The reforms of literary education began in Ukraine in 2015–2016. In 2018, the new State Standard of General Elementary Education came into effect, followed by the new State… read more
2026 Introduction: The moving canon(s) of Slavic children’s literature The Moving Canon(s) of Slavic Children’s Literature, Swietlicki, Mateusz, Dorota Michułka and Zofia Zasacka (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Chapter

