Getting home from work: narrating settler home In British Columbia's small resource communities

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dc.contributor.authorKeane, Stephanie
dc.contributor.supervisorDean, Misao
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-04T21:23:25Z
dc.date.copyright2016en_US
dc.date.issued2017-01-04
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of English
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractStories 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.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/7729
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectCanadian Literatureen_US
dc.subjectJack Hodginsen_US
dc.subjectAnne Cameronen_US
dc.subjectGail Anderson Dargatzen_US
dc.subjectHomeen_US
dc.subjectPlaceen_US
dc.subjectPatrick Laneen_US
dc.subjectD.W. Wilsonen_US
dc.subjectLogging Poetryen_US
dc.subjectResource Townsen_US
dc.subjectBritish Columbiaen_US
dc.subjectSusan Dobbieen_US
dc.subjectHoward Whiteen_US
dc.subjectM.Wylie Blancheten_US
dc.subjectGeorge Boweringen_US
dc.subjectAlan Pritcharden_US
dc.subjectLaurie Ricouen_US
dc.subjectEva Mackeyen_US
dc.subjectElizabeth Furnissen_US
dc.subjectBritish Columbian mill townsen_US
dc.subjectBritish Columbian Mining Townsen_US
dc.subjectBritish Columbian Literatureen_US
dc.subjectcolonialismen_US
dc.subjectSusan Jubyen_US
dc.subjectJack Moulden_US
dc.subjectIan McKayen_US
dc.subjectHarold Rhenischen_US
dc.titleGetting home from work: narrating settler home In British Columbia's small resource communitiesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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