Nothing to Write Home About

Nothing to Write Home About
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Publisher : UBC Press
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9780774838467
ISBN-13 : 0774838469
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Book Synopsis Nothing to Write Home About by : Laura Ishiguro

Download or read book Nothing to Write Home About written by Laura Ishiguro and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of surging interests in reconciliation and decolonization, settler colonialism increasingly occupies political, public, and academic conversations. Nothing to Write Home About is a detailed study of the settler colonial significance of British family correspondence sent between the United Kingdom and British Columbia between 1858 and 1914. Drawing on thousands of letters written by dozens of correspondents, it offers insights into epistolary topics including trans-imperial family intimacy and conflict, settlers’ everyday concerns such as boredom and food, and the importance of what correspondents chose not to write about. Analyzing both the letters’ content and their conspicuous, loaded silences, Laura Ishiguro traces how Britons used the post to navigate the family separations integral to their migration and to understand British Columbia as an uncontested settler home. This book argues that these letters and their writers played a critical role in laying the foundations of a powerful, personal settler colonial order that continues to structure the province today.


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