“Sweetland” by Michale Crummey as an Elegy on Disappearing Fishing Communities

Sweetland is a fictional record of the resettlement of a fishing town in Newfoundland due to a fishing crisis caused by a cod moratorium. The main character, Moses Sweetland, refuses to leave his home island and by feigning his own death manages to stay behind when all other inhabitants depart. The art...

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Published in:Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze
Main Author: Feldman-Kołodziejuk, Ewelina
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Polish
Published: Uniwersytet w Białymstoku. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku 2018
Subjects:
anthro-se
hist
Home Island
Moses
Newfoundland
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.15290/bsl.2018.12.17
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Summary:Sweetland is a fictional record of the resettlement of a fishing town in Newfoundland due to a fishing crisis caused by a cod moratorium. The main character, Moses Sweetland, refuses to leave his home island and by feigning his own death manages to stay behind when all other inhabitants depart. The article focuses on the transformations that the deserted island undergoes, with special focus on Gothic elements, the motif of the map and Pierre Nora’s concept of lieu de m´emoire.

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