Nothing to Write Home About
British Family Correspondence and the Settler Colonial Everyday in British Columbia
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Nothing to Write Home About
British Family Correspondence and the Settler Colonial Everyday in British Columbia
308 pages | © 2019
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
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