In Calamity's wake
| dc.contributor.advisor | Mayr, Suzette | |
| dc.contributor.author | Caple, Natalee Anne | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-12-18T22:31:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-12-18T22:31:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.description | Bibliography: p. 262-269 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | In Calamity's Wake is a feminist Canadian Western about a woman who hunts across the badlands of Alberta to the badlands of South Dakota for the mother who gave her up for adoption - the infamous cross-dressing frontierswoman Calamity Jane. With this novel I construct a "meta-historiographic" fiction in the tradition described by Linda Hutcheon in her book, The Canadian Postmodern. Rather than attempt to restore Calamity Jane to coherence, with this book I try to create through Calamity Jane a discursive construct that explodes the linear, coherent narrative of a mostly white, mostly male Old West. I do this to create a new Western that promotes the resistance of violence as a form of heroism and suggests that what women owe to each other, what the feminist/maternal legacy really is, is stories of women's diversity. These stories do not constitute a coherent or a linear tradition, but their circulation helps women to navigate themselves within a wider context. Highlighting diverse precedents contextualizes a broader array of women within the discursive construct of "woman" in history and, in giving women stories against which they may measure their own actions, this novel seeks to provide a mode of redress to the historic exclusion of alternate narratives by gesturing towards the multiplication of stories through the technique of pastiche. The novel is followed by a critical exegesis in the form of an afterword in which I provide critical context for the creative work arranged around the central questions I asked myself as I was writing: Why a Western? Why Calamity Jane? Why a feminist text? Why a mother/daughter story? Each of these questions provides a framework for discussing the history of the novel's production, an exploration of its critical and aesthetic influences, and some explanation of the purpose behind many stylistic decisions. | |
| dc.format.extent | v, 269 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Caple, N. A. (2012). In Calamity's wake (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4733 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/4733 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1880/105734 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en |
| dc.publisher.place | Calgary | en |
| dc.rights | University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. | |
| dc.title | In Calamity's wake | |
| dc.type | doctoral thesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | English | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Calgary | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | |
| ucalgary.item.requestcopy | true | |
| ucalgary.thesis.accession | Theses Collection 58.002:Box 2083 627942955 | |
| ucalgary.thesis.notes | UARC | en |
| ucalgary.thesis.uarcrelease | y | en |
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