“It Was a Strange New World, It Was”: Queering Place and Place Myths in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador Literature
This article begins with an analytical itemization of several moments in recent Newfoundland and Labrador fictions in which identity, culture, and history are presented and romanticized through heteronormative sexual relationships and metaphors. Having identified such depictions as established trope...
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/jcs-2020-0014 2023-12-31T10:11:57+01:00 “It Was a Strange New World, It Was”: Queering Place and Place Myths in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador Literature Chafe, Paul 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcs-2020-0014 https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/jcs-2020-0014 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Journal of Canadian Studies volume 54, issue 2-3, page 266-289 ISSN 0021-9495 1911-0251 History Cultural Studies journal-article 2020 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/jcs-2020-0014 2023-12-01T08:18:06Z This article begins with an analytical itemization of several moments in recent Newfoundland and Labrador fictions in which identity, culture, and history are presented and romanticized through heteronormative sexual relationships and metaphors. Having identified such depictions as established tropes in Newfoundland and Labrador literature, this article then considers a new wave of queer representations of Newfoundland place and people in novels and stories by Jessica Grant, Kathleen Winter, Eva Crocker, Michael Winter, and others to examine how these instances contradict and complicate heteronormative images of consummation and control. Finally, this article will accept the invitation extended by Scott Lauria Morgensen in “Settler Homonationalism: Theorizing Settler Colonialism within Queer Modernities” to consider how queer histories can be consumed by settler nationalism and then question if these new Newfoundland narratives are unsettling and transformative or simply more stories supporting the complexity, as well as the inevitability and finality, of an Indigenized Newfoundland settler culture. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Journal of Canadian Studies 54 2-3 266 289 |
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This article begins with an analytical itemization of several moments in recent Newfoundland and Labrador fictions in which identity, culture, and history are presented and romanticized through heteronormative sexual relationships and metaphors. Having identified such depictions as established tropes in Newfoundland and Labrador literature, this article then considers a new wave of queer representations of Newfoundland place and people in novels and stories by Jessica Grant, Kathleen Winter, Eva Crocker, Michael Winter, and others to examine how these instances contradict and complicate heteronormative images of consummation and control. Finally, this article will accept the invitation extended by Scott Lauria Morgensen in “Settler Homonationalism: Theorizing Settler Colonialism within Queer Modernities” to consider how queer histories can be consumed by settler nationalism and then question if these new Newfoundland narratives are unsettling and transformative or simply more stories supporting the complexity, as well as the inevitability and finality, of an Indigenized Newfoundland settler culture. |
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“It Was a Strange New World, It Was”: Queering Place and Place Myths in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador Literature |
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“It Was a Strange New World, It Was”: Queering Place and Place Myths in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador Literature |
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“It Was a Strange New World, It Was”: Queering Place and Place Myths in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador Literature |
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“It Was a Strange New World, It Was”: Queering Place and Place Myths in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador Literature |
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“It Was a Strange New World, It Was”: Queering Place and Place Myths in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador Literature |
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