Imagining Difference: Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town
by Robertson, Leslie A.

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Leslie Robertson turns to a popular local legend to explore the social construction of difference through ideas of “race,” “foreignness,”and regional, class, and religious identity, as expressed by residents of Fernie, British Columbia, a coal-mining town on its way to becoming an international ski resort. The legend revolves around a curse cast on the valley by indigenous people in the nineteenth century. Successive interpretations of the story reveal a complicated landscape of memory and silence, mapping official and contested histories, social and scientific theories, as well as the edicts of political discourse. Cursing becomes a metaphor for the discursive power that resonates in political, popular, and cultural contexts, transmitting ideas of difference across generations and geographies.

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ISBN-10:	0774810939
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780774810937
Author:	Robertson, Leslie A.
Publisher:	UBC Press Vancouver, B.C.
Publication Date:	7/2005
Pages:	300 pp
Size/Dimensions:	9 x 6 x 1 inches
Binding:	Paperback