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271 Acadians, 7, 106, 114, 230, 232, 249n2 Acheson, T.W., 11, 243 Acorn, Milton, 5, 99 Africadia, 114, 121, 122–23, 126, 239, 245 Africville, 114–23; in Consecrated Ground, 114–20; in Tynes’s poetry, 120–22 Alexander, David, 10 Andrews, Jennifer, 229, 232 anti-modernism, 33, 122, 145, 148–49, 161, 199; in MacLeod’s iction, 62, 64, 155; in Sylvanus Now, 34, 38, 39; The Town That Forgot How to Breathe and, 51–53, 158 Armstrong, Christopher, 138 Armstrong, Jeannette, 107, 110 Armstrong, Pat, 92 Atlantic Canada, 7, 21, 53–54; as backward, 6, 13, 21, 23, 26, 101, 126, 144–45, 218, 237, 238, 244, 254n1; culture(s) of, 22, 101–3, 126–27, 215–16, 240; history of, 170, 240, 245–46; as leisure space, 1, 2, 6, 22, 148–49; outsiders’ views of, 1, 2, 3, 28, 103, 138, 139–40; sense of crisis in, 2, 4, 26, 171, 233, 241; sense of place in, 7, 20–21, 243–47; subordinate status of, 2, 3, 7, 9, 12–13, 18, 22, 23, 26, 27, 146–47, 169, 237, 238, 239–40, 242, 244. See also Atlantic-Canadian literature; Maritime provinces; New Brunswick; Newfoundland and Labrador; Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island Atlantic-Canadian literature, 1, 2, 4–5, 6–7, 23–28, 237–38, 240, 244, 245, 246, 247; as speculative iction, 242–43; culture and, 102–3, 126– 27, 137–38; globalization and, 1, 6, 25, 28, 99–100, 102–3, 233, 237–38, 246; sense of place in, 245–47; tourism and, 2, 4, 22, 137–38, 167, 170–71; work and, 30–31, 99–100. See also historical iction; Maritime provinces, literature; Newfoundland and Labrador, literature Atlantic Groundish Strategy, 50 Atwood, Margaret, 198 Baker, Melvin, 12 Baltimore’s Mansion (Johnston), 174–77, 185, 215; Newfoundland’s “ghost history” and, 174, 176, 177; preConfederation Newfoundland and, 174–77; referendum in, 174–77 Balzer, David, 223 Index 272 Index Banks, Catherine, 54, 106, 249n1 Bannister, Jerry, 180, 185–86 Bantjes, Rod, 137–38 Barry, Frank, 162–65, 166, 239, 245; Wreckhouse, 162–65, 166, 167, 240 Bartlett, Captain Robert A., 210, 211, 212, 213; in The Big Why, 210–15 Baudrillard, Jean, 158 Bauman, Zygmunt, 20, 63, 71, 223, 243, 244 Benjamin, Walter, 151, 152 Beothuk, 108, 187–96, 202, 234; in Newfoundland literature, 187–88; in River Thieves, 188–94, 195–96, 215 Berman, Marshall, 16–17, 245 The Big Why (Winter), 203–15, 216, 252n6; anachronism in, 213–15; come-from-away in, 203–208, 213, 215–16; rural Newfoundland in, 204–8, 209–10; self-actualization in, 204–10, 212, 214–15 Bitterman, Rusty, 33 Black Renaissance, 114, 122, 124, 251n5 Black writers, 105–6, 114–27, 135, 137, 167, 168 Blades, Kent, 36, 37, 40, 42, 46, 48 Borden, Walter, 114 Bourdieu, Pierre, 16 Boyd, George, 105, 114, 115–20; Consecrated Ground, 115–20, 142 Braedley, Susan, and Meg Luxton, 62, 90–91, 96 The Bricklin, 232 Brodie, Janine, 92 Buchan, David, 190, 191 Buckler, Ernest, 27, 99, 106 Buckner, Phillip, 10, 219 Budgel, Richard, 187, 189 Burgoyne, Norman, 224–25, 226 Butler, Judith, 131 Cadigan, Sean, 13, 75, 79, 85 Campbell, Maria, 110 capitalism, 64–65, 69, 71, 75, 97, 238; as creative destruction, 16–17, 24, 96, 245; globalization and, 16, 21, 61–63, 93–97, 99–100; mobility and, 20–21, 42, 61–63, 95, 97, 99–100, 223, 242, 243–47; space and, 8–9, 20–21, 93, 246; tourism and, 148, 161–62 Carman, Bliss, 106 Cashin, Peter, 175, 176 Central Canada, 9, 11, 13, 14, 23; in The Maritime Way of Life, 142–46; in Strange Heaven, 139–42, 150 Chafe, Paul, 158–59, 173, 186, 193, 194 Clairmont, Donald H., and Dennis Magill, 115–16, 117, 118 Clarke, George Elliott, 5, 25, 103, 105, 114, 115, 120, 122–26, 217, 224–32, 234, 239, 245, 252n2, 253n7, 253n8; Execution Poems, 224–29, 231–32, 240, 253n9; George & Rue, 224–32, 240, 253n9; Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues, 123–24; Whylah Falls, 124–26, class, 5, 18, 33, 43–44, 63–65, 139–40, 181, 233 Clewell, Tammy, 78–79 “The Closing Down of Summer” (MacLeod), 58–61; Gaelic culture in, 58–59, 60; globalization in 59–60, 66; mining in, 58–61; tribal identity in, 58–59, 66 Clow, Michael, 11, 17, 242 Coady, Lynn, 5, 25, 103, 106, 127, 130–34, 138–42, 150–53, 239, 241, 245; Strange Heaven, 130–34...

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