After Extraction: Idling in the Ruins in Michael Winter’s and Alistair MacLeod’s Neoliberal Fictions

Cheryl  Lousley

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Vol. 45 No. 2 (2021): Special Issue: Neoliberal Environments

After Extraction: Idling in the Ruins in Michael Winter’s and Alistair MacLeod’s Neoliberal Fictions

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Submitted: July 14, 2021
Published: 2021-07-14

References

Armstrong, Christopher J. “The Rock Observed: Art and Surveillance in Michael Winter’s This All Happened.” Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, vol. 25, no. 1, 2010, pp. 37-53.
Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Duke UP, 2011.
“Bull Arm Fabrication.” Nalcor Energy, https://oilandgas.nalcorenergy.com/bull-arm/bullarm-fabrication/.
Chafe, Paul. “Beautiful Losers: The Flâneur in St. John’s Literature.” Newfoundland andLabrador Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 2008, pp. 115-38.
Chafe, Paul. Review of This All Happened, by Michael Winter; The Big Why, by Michael Winter. Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, vol. 22, no. 2, 2007, pp. 547-50.
Charman, Caitlin. “‘There Are Things You Don’t Get Over’: Resistant Mourning in Lisa Moore’s February.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne, vol.39, no. 2, 2014, pp. 126-48.
Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. U of Minnesota P, 2014.
Creelman, David. “‘Hoping to Strike Some Sort of Solidity’: The Shifting Fictions of Alistair MacLeod.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 24, no. 2, 1999, pp. 79-99.
Creelman, David. Review of Minister Without Portfolio, by Michael Winter. Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2015, pp. 165-67.
Crummey, Michael. The Innocents. Doubleday Canada, 2019.
Gómez-Barris, Macarena. The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives. Duke UP, 2017.
Halford, Thomas. “A Reconsideration of Surveillance in Michael Winter’s This All Happened: What Actually Happened?” Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, 2016, pp. 110-31.
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler. The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville. 1836. McClelland & Stewart, 1993.
Haraway, Donna J. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke UP, 2016.
Harvey, David. The New Imperialism. Oxford UP, 2003.
Huebener, Paul. Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture. McGill-Queen’s UP, 2015.
Innis, Harold A. The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History. 1930. U of Toronto P, 1999.
Keefer, Janice Kulyk. “Loved Labour Lost: Alistair MacLeod’s Elegiac Ethos.” Alistair MacLeod: Essays on His Works, edited by Irene Guilford, Guernica, 2001, pp. 72-83.
Kino-nda-niimi Collective. The Winter We Danced: Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement. ARP Books, 2014.
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Moore, Jason W. Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Verso, 2015.
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Wyile, Herb. “Glocalization and Neoliberalism in Michael Winter’s The Architects Are Here.” Literature and the Glocal City: Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary, edited by Ana María Fraile-Marcos, Routledge, 2014, pp. 145-59.

How to Cite

Lousley, C. . (2021). After Extraction: Idling in the Ruins in Michael Winter’s and Alistair MacLeod’s Neoliberal Fictions. Studies in Canadian Literature, 45(2), 229–253. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/32507

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[1] Armstrong, Christopher J. “The Rock Observed: Art and Surveillance in Michael Winter’s This All Happened.” Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, vol. 25, no. 1, 2010, pp. 37-53.

[2] Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Duke UP, 2011.

[3] “Bull Arm Fabrication.” Nalcor Energy, https://oilandgas.nalcorenergy.com/bull-arm/bullarm-fabrication/.

[4] Chafe, Paul. “Beautiful Losers: The Flâneur in St. John’s Literature.” Newfoundland andLabrador Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 2008, pp. 115-38.

[5] Chafe, Paul. Review of This All Happened, by Michael Winter; The Big Why, by Michael Winter. Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, vol. 22, no. 2, 2007, pp. 547-50.

[6] Charman, Caitlin. “‘There Are Things You Don’t Get Over’: Resistant Mourning in Lisa Moore’s February.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne, vol.39, no. 2, 2014, pp. 126-48.

[7] Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. U of Minnesota P, 2014.

[8] Creelman, David. “‘Hoping to Strike Some Sort of Solidity’: The Shifting Fictions of Alistair MacLeod.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 24, no. 2, 1999, pp. 79-99.

[9] Creelman, David. Review of Minister Without Portfolio, by Michael Winter. Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2015, pp. 165-67.

[10] Crummey, Michael. The Innocents. Doubleday Canada, 2019.

[11] Gómez-Barris, Macarena. The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives. Duke UP, 2017.

[12] Halford, Thomas. “A Reconsideration of Surveillance in Michael Winter’s This All Happened: What Actually Happened?” Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, 2016, pp. 110-31.

[13] Haliburton, Thomas Chandler. The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville. 1836. McClelland & Stewart, 1993.

[14] Haraway, Donna J. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke UP, 2016.

[15] Harvey, David. The New Imperialism. Oxford UP, 2003.

[16] Huebener, Paul. Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture. McGill-Queen’s UP, 2015.

[17] Innis, Harold A. The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History. 1930. U of Toronto P, 1999.

[18] Keefer, Janice Kulyk. “Loved Labour Lost: Alistair MacLeod’s Elegiac Ethos.” Alistair MacLeod: Essays on His Works, edited by Irene Guilford, Guernica, 2001, pp. 72-83.

[19] Kino-nda-niimi Collective. The Winter We Danced: Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement. ARP Books, 2014.

[20] LeMenager, Stephanie. Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century. Oxford UP, 2014.

[21] MacLeod, Alistair. As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories. 1986. McClelland &

[22] Stewart, 1992.

[23] MacLeod, Alistair. The Lost Salt Gift of Blood. McClelland & Stewart, 1976.

[24] MacLeod, Alistair. No Great Mischief. McClelland & Stewart, 1999.

[25] Mason, Jody. “A Family of Migrant Workers: Region and the Rise of Neoliberalism in the Fiction of Alistair MacLeod.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 38, no. 1, 2013, pp. 151-69.

[26] Moore, Jason W. Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Verso, 2015.

[27] Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard UP, 2011.

[28] Omhovère, Claire. “Roots and Routes in a Selection of Stories by Alistair MacLeod.” Canadian Literature, no. 189, 2006, pp. 50-67.

[29] Povinelli, Elizabeth A. Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism. Duke UP, 2011.

[30] Riegel, Christian. “Elegy and Mourning in Alistair MacLeod’s ‘The Boat.’” Studies in Short Fiction, vol. 35, no. 3, 1998, pp. 233-40.

[31] Roberts, Terry. “Companies Lining Up to Make Use of Idle Bull Arm Fabrication Site in Post-Hebron Era.” CBC News, 10 Jan. 2018, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundlandlabrador/bull-arm-fabrication-proposals-1.4480832.

[32] Rowsell, Mandy. “‘The Past Is Making a Comeback’: Michael Winter’s Minister Without Portfolio and the Gendered Island Culture of Newfoundland.” Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, vol. 12, no. 1, 2018, pp. 66-78.

[33] Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. U of Minnesota P, 2017.

[34] Sugars, Cynthia. “Repetition with a Difference: The Paradox of Origins in Alistair MacLeod’s No Great Mischief.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 33, no. 2, 2008, pp. 133-50.

[35] Thompson, Peter. “Surveillance and the City in Michael Winter’s This All Happened.” English Studies in Canada, vol. 36, no. 4, 2010, pp. 71-90.

[36] Thoreau, Henry David. Walden. 1854. Beacon, 2004.

[37] Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton UP, 2005.

[38] Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton UP, 2015.

[39] Weber, Max. The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Translated by Talcott Parsons. 1930. Routledge, 1992.

[40] White, Richard. “‘Are You an Environmentalist or Do You Work for a Living?’: Work and Nature.” Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, edited by William Cronon, Norton, 1996, pp. 171-85.

[41] Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City. Oxford UP, 1973.

[42] Winter, Michael. The Architects Are Here. 2007. Penguin Canada, 2008.

[43] Winter, Michael. Minister Without Portfolio. Hamish Hamilton, 2013.

[44] Wyile, Herb. Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2011.

[45] Wyile, Herb. “Glocalization and Neoliberalism in Michael Winter’s The Architects Are Here.” Literature and the Glocal City: Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary, edited by Ana María Fraile-Marcos, Routledge, 2014, pp. 145-59.