Taking the Waters: Abjection and Homecoming in The Shipping News and Death of a River Guide
This article compares recent figurations of the Canadian island of Newfoundland with those of the Australian island of Tasmania through close analysis of two significant contemporary novels. It argues that E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News and Richard Flanagan’s Death of a River Guide construct Ne...
| Published in: | The Journal of Commonwealth Literature |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publications
2006
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989406062920 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0021989406062920 |