Nothing to Write Home About

British Family Correspondence and the Settler Colonial Everyday in British Columbia

Laura Ishiguro (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

308 Seiten

2019
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3844-3 (ISBN)

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In the context of surging interests in reconciliation and decolonization, settler colonialism increasingly occupies political, public, and academic conversations. Nothing to Write Home About is a detailed study of the settler colonial significance of British family correspondence sent between the United Kingdom and British Columbia between 1858 and 1914. Drawing on thousands of letters written by dozens of correspondents, it offers insights into epistolary topics including trans-imperial family intimacy and conflict, settlers' everyday concerns such as boredom and food, and the importance of what correspondents chose not to write about. Analyzing both the letters' content and their conspicuous, loaded silences, Laura Ishiguro traces how Britons used the post to navigate the family separations integral to their migration and to understand British Columbia as an uncontested settler home. This book argues that these letters and their writers played a critical role in laying the foundations of a powerful, personal settler colonial order that continues to structure the province today.

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 Columbia" – 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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	11.11.2019
Zusatzinfo	3 b&w photos, 1 map
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7748-3844-2 / 0774838442
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-3844-3 / 9780774838443
Zustand	Neuware