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Regions in time : Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s The cure for death by lightning and Ann-Marie Macdonald’s Fall on your kneesLewis, Tanya 05 1900 (has links)
This thesis examines the methods through which Gail Anderson-Dargatz and Ann-Marie
MacDonald construct region in their novels The Cure for Death by Lightning and Fall on
Your Knees. These texts, like all successful regional novels, describe more than
geography. Their regions are also functions of time. I introduce the term "temporal
region" to describe the spaces created by this interdependence of time and place. I then
focus upon the specifics of descriptive and narrative approach that lead to the convincing
portrayal of the Shuswap and Cape Breton Island in the texts. Anderson-Dargatz and
MacDonald direct attention to the foddways of their regions, expressing the connection
between consumption choices and a society's historical and physical location. The authors
also articulate their regions by highlighting cultural diversity in the areas they describe. In
this way they deny the social homogeneity more sentimental regional texts often rely upon.
Finally, the novelists use an appropriately Canadian method of regional opposition to
define their temporal regions according to that which they are not ~ they are not
American, glamorous, or urban. They therefore must be Canadian, quotidian, and rural.
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Regions in time : Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s The cure for death by lightning and Ann-Marie Macdonald’s Fall on your kneesLewis, Tanya 05 1900 (has links)
This thesis examines the methods through which Gail Anderson-Dargatz and Ann-Marie
MacDonald construct region in their novels The Cure for Death by Lightning and Fall on
Your Knees. These texts, like all successful regional novels, describe more than
geography. Their regions are also functions of time. I introduce the term "temporal
region" to describe the spaces created by this interdependence of time and place. I then
focus upon the specifics of descriptive and narrative approach that lead to the convincing
portrayal of the Shuswap and Cape Breton Island in the texts. Anderson-Dargatz and
MacDonald direct attention to the foddways of their regions, expressing the connection
between consumption choices and a society's historical and physical location. The authors
also articulate their regions by highlighting cultural diversity in the areas they describe. In
this way they deny the social homogeneity more sentimental regional texts often rely upon.
Finally, the novelists use an appropriately Canadian method of regional opposition to
define their temporal regions according to that which they are not ~ they are not
American, glamorous, or urban. They therefore must be Canadian, quotidian, and rural. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate
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Getting home from work: narrating settler home In British Columbia's small resource communitiesKeane, Stephanie 04 January 2017 (has links)
Stories of home do more than contribute to a culture that creates multiple ways of seeing a place: they also claim that the represented people and their shared values belong in
place; that is, they claim land. Narrators of post-war B.C. resource communities create narratives that support residents’ presence although their employment, which impoverishes First Nations people and destroys ecosystems, runs counter to
contemporary national constructions of Canada as a tolerant and environmentalist community. As the first two chapters show, neither narratives of nomadic early workers nor those of contemporary town residents represent values that support contemporary
settler communities’ claims to be at home, as such stories associate resource work with opportunism, environmental damage, race- and gender-based oppression, and social chaos. Settler residents and the (essentially liberal) values that make them the best people for the land are represented instead through three groups of alternate stories, explored in Chapters 3-5: narratives of homesteading families extending the structure of a “good” colonial project through land development and trade; narratives of contemporary farmers who reject the legacy of the colonial project by participating in a sustainable local economy in harmony with local First Nations and the land; and narratives of direct supernatural connection to place, where the land uses the settler (often an artist or writer) as a medium to guide people to meet its (the land’s) needs. All three narratives reproduce the core idea that the best “work” makes the most secure claim to home, leading resource communities to define themselves in defiance of
heir industries. Authors studied include Jack Hodgins, Anne Cameron, Susan Dobbie, Patrick Lane, Gail Anderson-Dargatz,D.W. Wilson, Harold Rhenisch, M.Wylie Blanchet, Susan Juby, and Howard White. / Graduate / 2017-09-08
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