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Michael Crummey’s River Thieves in the light of rescue history

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Feldman-Kołodziejuk E.
Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies
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2016
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vol. 14
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Born and raised in Newfoundland and Labrador, Michael Crummey uses his inside knowledge to describe the region’s peculiarities in vivid detail. All four of his novels are set in Newfoundland and weave a story of its inhabitants throughout different moments in the island’s history. Though Crummey’s prose is broadly characterized as historical fiction, his novels differ from their traditional counterparts. This article aims to invite a reading of Crummey’s works through the prism of rescue history, a concept recently introduced by a Polish scholar, Ewa Domańska. Rescue history, drawing on frontier and post-colonial studies among others, is preoccupied with local, potential, existential and affirmative history whose goal is to rescue the future. Although the concept of rescue history encompasses a variety of disciplines and activities, this article will focus on the literary realization of the notion of rescue history in Crummey’s debut novel River Thieves, published in 2002. Based on historical accounts of Captain David Buchan’s expedition to Red Indian Lake, whose aim was to encourage trade and put an end to hostilities between English settlers and Beothuks, the novel encourages a compassionate revisiting of the chronicled events. Weaving an intricate web of human relations and dependencies, Crummey manages to restore agency to those who are situated on the periphery either due to gender, status or origin, thus reminding the reader that we are all capable of changing the course of history.
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Reading space in Michael Crummey's River Thieves

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Feldman-Kołodziejuk E.
Świat i Słowo
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2020
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vol. 34(1)
336-336
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The fiction of Michael Crummey, one of the renowned contemporary Canadian writers, is deeply rooted in the landscape of his home-island, that is, Newfoundland. In his debut novel River Thieves published in 2001, the author shows the land as a non-anthropological determinant of human history and the only witness to keep a vivid, undistorted memory of the vanished tribe of Beothuks. This article invites the reading of Crummey's works through the prism of geopoetics and cultural geography. It shows what functions the space/land plays in the discussed narrative and how it adds new meanings to an old story, that is the extinction of Red Indians. Endowed with agency, nature is as important an agent in history-making as the settlers and first inhabitants; moreover, at present day it acts a live repository of memory. The article also investigates the differences between the English and Polish editions of the novel, focusing on the maps that precede the narrative.
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Przestrzeń i jej funkcje w Rzece Złodziei Michaela Crummeya

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Feldman-Kołodziejuk E.
Świat i Słowo
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2020
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vol. 34
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issue 1
321-336
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The fiction of Michael Crummey, one of the renowned contemporary Canadian writers, is deeply rooted in the landscape of his home-island, that is, Newfoundland. In his debut novel River Thieves published in 2001, the author shows the land as a non-anthropological determinant of human history and the only witness to keep a vivid, undistorted memory of the vanished tribe of Beothuks. This article invites the reading of Crummey's works through the prism of geopoetics and cultural geography. It shows what functions the space/land plays in the discussed narrative and how it adds new meanings to an old story, that is the extinction of Red Indians. Endowed with agency, nature is as important an agent in history-making as the settlers and first inhabitants; moreover, at present day it acts a live repository of memory. The article also investigates the differences between the English and Polish editions of the novel, focusing on the maps that precede the narrative.
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Twórczość Michaela Crummeya, jednego z czołowych współczesnych pisarzy kanadyjskich, jest silnie osadzona w krajobrazie jego rodzinnych stron – Nowej Fundlandii. Wszystkie cztery jego powieści usytuowane są na wspomnianej wyspie i wspólnie kreślą szeroką panoramę historyczną tego regionu od czasów kolonialnych do współczesności. W swojej debiutanckiej książce z 2001 roku, zatytułowanej Rzeka złodziei, Crummey traktuje przestrzeń przede wszystkim jako nieantropologiczną determinantę ludzkich losów i procesów historycznych oraz świadka zagłady plemienia Czerwonych Indian. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest ukazanie przestrzeni jako jednej z naczelnych kategorii powieści, a co za tym idzie, jej wpływu na recepcję dzieła przez czytelnika.
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