“The Lore of the Place”: (In)Hospitalities in Michael Crummey’s Galore (2010)
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 contemp...
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2023
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| Итог: | 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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