Branch Road Nine

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dc.contributor.advisorMajzels, Robert
dc.contributor.authorHedley, Cara
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-26T17:29:48Z
dc.date.embargolift2019-03-25T17:29:48Z
dc.date.issued2014-03-26
dc.date.submitted2014en
dc.description.abstractWhen the Ojibway band that owns Crow Island reclaims it from the cottagers who have been leasing it for decades, Mag returns to her family cabin to help her grandparents move off the island. Investigating a violent incident her late mother committed against an Ojibway woman, Mag develops a complicated friendship with the woman’s daughter, Eden, and attempts to untangle her inherited guilt and grief — and the mystery of Eden and her mother — through story. Limning the ethical borderlines of access to voice and story, Branch Road Nine explores the discourse of guilt, apology, and reconciliation on a narrative level, interrogating Mag’s personal desire for truth and redemption from both the violent history inherited from her mother and the history between her family and the Ojibway band whose land they leased. Branch Road Nine confronts the paradox of responsibility and guilt entangled in these issues, enacting a narrative response to the question of how non-First Nations writers can approach the topic of Canada’s colonial past and present: with an eye turned toward the perils of appropriation, yet proceeding with a belief in the absolute necessity to try to represent these issues in all of their complexity.en_US
dc.description.embargoterms5 yearsen_US
dc.identifier.citationHedley, C. (2014). Branch Road Nine (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25162en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/25162
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/1395
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity 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.subjectLiterature--Canadian (English)
dc.titleBranch Road Nine
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglish
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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