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Author Thompson, Peter, 1981- author.

Title Nights below Foord Street : literature and popular culture in postindustrial Nova Scotia / Peter Thompson.

Publication Info. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Industrial Era -- Cultures of Extraction in Northern Nova Scotia -- Masculine Anxieties in Postindustrial Nova Scotia -- Trash the Kilt: Whiteness in Post-Tartan Nova Scotia -- Cottonland and Oxyana: Prescription Drugs and Moral Panics -- Conclusion: What Remains.
Summary "According to its licence plates, tourist brochures, and commercials, Nova Scotia is Canada's Ocean Playground--an idyllic vacation spot brimming with traditional cultural experiences. Yet this picturesque and welcoming ad-friendly façade overlooks the province's history of industrial development, the impact of resource extraction on its landscape, and the effects of its painful and still unfinished period of deindustrialization. Recounting Nova Scotia's struggle to come to terms with its extractive and industrial past, Nights below Foord Street focuses on the spaces ignored by the province's annual Doers and Dreamers tourist guide. Drawing on literary texts by Lynn Coady, Leo McKay, Sarah Mian, and Jonathan Campbell, popular television shows such as Trailer Park Boys, and films including Blackbird, Cottonland, and Poor Boy's Game, Peter Thompson examines the ways in which contemporary authors, filmmakers, and artists explore the lingering consequences of the boom-and-bust cycles of mining and manufacturing. As he demonstrates, these narratives depict a legacy of environmental exploitation, pollution, intermittent disasters, and labour violence left behind by the industrial era, all of which contrast starkly with the romantic and nostalgic portrait of Nova Scotia's industrial heritage promoted in museums, monuments, and tourist sites. As Donald Trump and other populist politicians appeal to working-class nostalgia and international attention converges on environmental racism in northern Nova Scotia, Nights below Foord Street intervenes into debates over the cultural and social effects of the post-industrial economy."-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Canadian literature -- Nova Scotia -- History and criticism.
Canadian literature.
Nova Scotia.
Canadian literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Popular culture -- Nova Scotia.
Popular culture.
Deindustrialization -- Nova Scotia.
Deindustrialization.
Nova Scotia -- In popular culture.
Canadian literature (English) -- Nova Scotia -- History and criticism.
Canadian literature (English) -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Thompson, Peter, 1981- Nights below Foord Street. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019 0773559345 9780773559349 (OCoLC)1096491685
ISBN 9780228000532 (electronic book)
022800053X (electronic book)
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9780773559332
9780773559349 paperback
0773559345
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9780773559332