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Nothing to Write Home About Laura Ishiguro

Nothing to Write Home About By Laura Ishiguro

Nothing to Write Home About by Laura Ishiguro

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The first substantial study of family correspondence and settler colonialism, Nothing to Write Home About elucidates the significance of trans-imperial intimacy, epistolary silence, and the everyday in laying the foundations of settler colonialism in British Columbia.

Nothing to Write Home About Summary

Nothing to Write Home About: British Family Correspondence and the Settler Colonial Everyday in British Columbia by Laura Ishiguro

Nothing to Write Home About uncovers the significance of British family correspondence sent between the United Kingdom and British Columbia between 1858 and 1914. Drawing on thousands of letters, Laura Ishiguro offers insights into epistolary topics including familial intimacy and conflict, everyday concerns such as boredom and food, and what correspondents chose not to write. She shows that Britons used the post to navigate family separations and understand British Columbia as an uncontested settler home. These letters and their writers played a critical role in laying the foundations of a powerful settler order that continues to structure the province today.

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[...]seemingly disparate topics are interwoven with the central threads of settler colonialism and trans-imperial family relations to produce a cohesive and sophisticated analysis.

-- Erin Millions * Left History *
Laura Ishiguro has written a fine book. Her meticulous examination of colonial correspondence is engaging and illuminating. She displays a considerable sensitivity for the language used by white settlers to discursively claim British Columbia and normalise their presence there. Ishiguro is especially skilful in summarising her conclusions at the end of each chapter, fluently articulating the tangled voices of British settlers. -- Robert Hogg * The Ormsby Review *

About Laura Ishiguro

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 Esme 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).

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

NGR9780774838436
9780774838436
0774838434
Nothing to Write Home About: British Family Correspondence and the Settler Colonial Everyday in British Columbia by Laura Ishiguro
Laura Ishiguro
New
Hardback
University of British Columbia Press
2019-05-01
308
Commended for The Wilson Book Prize, McMaster University 2020 (Canada)
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