Sweetland by Michale Crummey as an Elegy on Disappearing Fishing Communities Cover Image

Sweetland Michaela Crummeya jako elegia na znikające osady rybackie
Sweetland by Michale Crummey as an Elegy on Disappearing Fishing Communities

Author(s): Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Other Language Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: resettlement; space; lieu de mémoire; map; Newfoundland

Summary/Abstract: Sweetland is a fictional record of the resettlement of a fishing town in Newfoundland due to a fishing crisis caused by a cod moratorium. The main character, Moses Sweetland, refuses to leave his home island and by feigning his own death manages to stay behind when all other inhabitants depart. The article focuses on the transformations that the deserted island undergoes, with special focus on Gothic elements, the motif of the map and Pierre Nora’s concept of lieu de mémoire.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 267-275
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish