Getting home from work: narrating settler home In British Columbia's small resource communities

• Main Author: Keane, Stephanie
• Other Authors: Dean, Misao
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Canadian Literature; Jack Hodgins; Anne Cameron; Gail Anderson Dargatz; Home; Place; Patrick Lane; D.W. Wilson; Logging Poetry; Resource Towns; British Columbia; Susan Dobbie; Howard White; M.Wylie Blanchet; George Bowering; Alan Pritchard; Laurie Ricou; Eva Mackey; Elizabeth Furniss; British Columbian mill towns; British Columbian Mining Towns; British Columbian Literature; colonialism; Susan Juby; Jack Mould; Ian McKay; Harold Rhenisch; Canada; Laurie; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7729

Stories of home do more than contribute to a culture that creates multiple ways of seeing a place: they also claim that the represented people and their shared values belong in place; that is, they claim land. Narrators of post-war B.C. resource communities create narratives that support residents’...