Tribute to Newfoundland, tribute to fatherland : Michael Crummey's Sweetland in a geocritical perspective

• Main Author: Feldman-Kołodziejuk, Ewelina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Michael Crummey; Sweetland; geocriticism; regionalism; resettlement; lieu de mémoire; Atwood; Bertrand; Canada; Coleman; Kahn; Laurie; Locke; Lopez; Northrop; Tremblay; Turcotte; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11320/10221

The article invites a reading of Michael Crummey's Sweetland (2014) from the geocritical point of view. The novel is a fictional record of the resettlement of a fishing town situated on an imaginary island off the coast of Newfoundland. The main character refuses to leave his home, and by feign...