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- Title
- Mapping the ground: A critical and creative exploration of the diary of Ada Sykes, 1912--1915.
- Contributors
- Pamela H. den Ouden (author), Karin Beeler (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
- Abstract
- This thesis provides a critical and creative exploration of the diary of a woman who pioneered in the upper Fraser River valley of northern British Columbia from 1912 to 1925. Ada Adelia Sykes left a diary in which she kept a record of daily activities throughout a three-year period. My work examines her diary in the context of women's life-writing. First, I discuss various theories of life-writing, arguing that women's life-writing makes important contributions to the understanding of past, present, and self. Next, I analyze the diary in its historical context. Finally, I present original poems, based on the diary entries, as well as on the life of my grandmother, Alice Jane Beaven, a contemporary of Ada Sykes. This thesis demonstrates a trend in which researchers imbricate their own stories in those of their subjects: in telling the stories of Ada Adelia Sykes and Alice Jane Beaven, I tell part of my own story.
- Discipline
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Content Model
- info:fedora/ir:thesisCModel
- Date added
- 2005
- Title
- In Singing, He Composed a Song.
- Contributors
- Jeremy Stewart (author), Robert Budde (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
- Abstract
- In Singing, He Composed a Song is a rhizomatic assemblage of texts, voices, and fragments. It uses a collage of prose, lined poetry, photography, a transcribed interview, an epistle, psychiatric records, literary theory fragments, and more to narrate the story of John Stevenson's altercation with the RCMP and subsequent committal to the Psychiatric Ward at the Prince George Regional Hospital. The materials that make up the text are arranged in a rhizomatic network theorized as an assemblage. The rhizome is the polyvalent figure strategically adopted by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in their A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. It destabilizes unified, hierarchical relationships and structures. In Singing is an assemblage of enunciations which are fictional and provisional, and whose relationships are multiple and indeterminate. The assemblage enacts the palimpsestic, vertiginous layering of stories that informs John's precise difficulty with providing what his psychologist calls 'a fair account of himself.' --P. ii.
- Discipline
- English
- Content Model
- info:fedora/ir:thesisCModel
- Date added
- 2010