“The Lore of the Place”: (In)Hospitalities in Michael Crummey’s Galore (2010)

International audience In Michael Crummey’s Galore, whose narrative is driven by the arrivals of newcomers into a Newfoundland coastal community, the interplay between hospitality and hostility offers a lens through which the author’s concern with “the lore of the place” can be productively studied....

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Published in:ILCEA
Main Author: Letessier, Anne-Sophie
Other Authors: Etudes du Contemporain en Littératures, Langues, Arts (ECLLA), Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Saint-Étienne (ENSASE), Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2023
Subjects:
place
land
thresholds
storying
hospitality
[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature
Newfoundland
Online Access:https://hal.science/hal-04633395
https://doi.org/10.4000/ilcea.16499
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Summary:International audience In Michael Crummey’s Galore, whose narrative is driven by the arrivals of newcomers into a Newfoundland coastal community, the interplay between hospitality and hostility offers a lens through which the author’s concern with “the lore of the place” can be productively studied. Drawing on the contemporary reassessment of the notion of place, this paper examines how the novel’s representation of (in)hospitality evinces a critical engagement with the attachment to continuity, the search for origins and the need for emplacement, which ultimately disengages the text from discourses of autochthony.

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