The first substantial study of family correspondence and settler colonialism, Nothing to Write Home About elucidates the significance of trans-imperial intimacy, epistolary silence, and the everyday in laying the foundations of settler colonialism in British Columbia.
The first substantial study of family correspondence and settler colonialism, Nothing to Write Home About elucidates the significance of trans-imperial intimacy, epistolary silence, and the everyday in laying the foundations of settler colonialism in British Columbia.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Laura Ishiguro is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia, where she is a historian of settler colonialism, mobility, family, and the everyday in Canada and the British Empire. Her research has been published in a number of edited collections and journals, including a 2016 article in BC Studies ¿ ¿Growing Up and Grown Up [¿] in Our Future City: Discourses of Childhood and Settler Futurity in Colonial British Columbiä ¿ which won the 2017 Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity, and Transnationalism article prize. She has also coedited (with Esmé Cleall and Emily J. Manktelow) a 2013 special issue of the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History on histories of family in the British Empire, and edited a 2016 special issue of BC Studies on histories of settler colonialism in British Columbia. She is an associate of the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University (2017¿20) and a recipient of the Killam Teaching Prize at UBC (2018).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part 1: Relative Distances 1 "Bind the Empire Together": The Postal System, Family Letters, and British Columbia 2 "Affection Can Overstep Distance": The Letter as Trans-Imperial Family Part 2: The Colonial Commonplace 3 "Absolutely Nothing Going on": Epistolary Emotion and Unremarkable Colonial Knowledge 4 "A Dreadful Little Glutton": Settler Food Practices and the Epistolary Everyday Part 3: Family Faultlines, Fractured Knowledge 5 "Irreparable Loss": Family Rupture and Reconfiguration in Letters about Death 6 "Say Nothing": Epistolary Gossip, Silence, and the Strategic Limits of Intimacy Conclusion Notes; Bibliography; Index
Introduction Part 1: Relative Distances 1 "Bind the Empire Together": The Postal System, Family Letters, and British Columbia 2 "Affection Can Overstep Distance": The Letter as Trans-Imperial Family Part 2: The Colonial Commonplace 3 "Absolutely Nothing Going on": Epistolary Emotion and Unremarkable Colonial Knowledge 4 "A Dreadful Little Glutton": Settler Food Practices and the Epistolary Everyday Part 3: Family Faultlines, Fractured Knowledge 5 "Irreparable Loss": Family Rupture and Reconfiguration in Letters about Death 6 "Say Nothing": Epistolary Gossip, Silence, and the Strategic Limits of Intimacy Conclusion Notes; Bibliography; Index
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