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Thompson, Peter, 1981-
Subjects
Canadian literature -- Nova Scotia -- History and criticism.
Canadian literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Popular culture -- Nova Scotia.
Deindustrialization -- Nova Scotia.
Canadian literature (English) -- Nova Scotia -- History and criticism.
Canadian literature (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Nova Scotia -- In popular culture.
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Thompson, Peter, 1981-
Canadian literature -- Nova Scotia -- History and criticism.
Canadian literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Popular culture -- Nova Scotia.
Deindustrialization -- Nova Scotia.
Canadian literature (English) -- Nova Scotia -- History and criticism.
Canadian literature (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Nova Scotia -- In popular culture.
MARC Display
Nights
below
Foord
Street
:
literature
and
popular
culture
in
postindustrial
Nova
Scotia
/ Peter Thompson.
by
Thompson, Peter, 1981-
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
Call #:
810.99716 T475n
Subjects
Canadian
literature
--
Nova
Scotia
-- History and criticism.
Canadian
literature
-- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Popular
culture
--
Nova
Scotia
.
Deindustrialization --
Nova
Scotia
.
Canadian
literature
(English) --
Nova
Scotia
-- History and criticism.
Canadian
literature
(English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Nova
Scotia
-- In
popular
culture
.
ISBN:
9780773559349 (pbk.)
Description:
xiii, 172 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"According to its licence plates, tourist brochures, and commercials,
Nova
Scotia
is Canada's Ocean Playground--an idyllic vacation spot brimming with traditional cultural experiences. Yet this picturesque and welcoming ad-friendly façade overlooks the province's history of industrial development, the impact of resource extraction on its landscape, and the effects of its painful and still unfinished period of deindustrialization. Recounting
Nova
Scotia
's struggle to come to terms with its extractive and industrial past,
Nights
below
Foord
Street
focuses on the spaces ignored by the province's annual Doers and Dreamers tourist guide. Drawing on literary texts by Lynn Coady, Leo McKay, Sarah Mian, and Jonathan Campbell,
popular
television shows such as Trailer Park Boys, and films including Blackbird, Cottonland, and Poor Boy's Game, Peter Thompson examines the ways in which contemporary authors, filmmakers, and artists explore the lingering consequences of the boom-and-bust cycles of mining and manufacturing. As he demonstrates, these narratives depict a legacy of environmental exploitation, pollution, intermittent disasters, and labour violence left behind by the industrial era, all of which contrast starkly with the romantic and nostalgic portrait of
Nova
Scotia
's industrial heritage promoted in museums, monuments, and tourist sites. As Donald Trump and other populist politicians appeal to working-class nostalgia and international attention converges on environmental racism in northern
Nova
Scotia
,
Nights
below
Foord
Street
intervenes into debates over the cultural and social effects of the post-industrial economy."
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