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“Such a sort of pariah”: Psychosocial Marginality and the Bildungsroman in Mazo de la Roche’s Whiteoaks

dc.contributor.advisorRoy, Wendyen_US
dc.creatorThacker, Aaronen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-09T12:00:21Z
dc.date.available2015-09-09T12:00:21Z
dc.date.created2015-09en_US
dc.date.issued2015-09-08en_US
dc.date.submittedSeptember 2015en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores Mazo de la Roche’s peculiar articulation of the Bildungsroman in the first of Jalna’s sequels, Whiteoaks. It argues that the text’s psychosocially aberrant protagonist, Finch Whiteoak, is a Bildungsheld whose modern coming-of-age process of accommodation and assimilation into a socio-specific norm is not as much a progression toward the centre as it is a simultaneous progression/regression toward a reification of his exemplary marginal status as an other amidst others. This paper further contends that this unique process is made possible only by Finch’s particularly unstable and eccentric otherness—established through his treatment by his family as variously mentally ill rather than disabled—and that this process is both externally regressive in a vein similar to the modern, female Bildungsroman and internally progressive in the vein of the classic, male Künstlerroman. In order to accommodate this duality of publicly typical and privately subversive otherness, Finch must navigate the diegetic realm’s social boundaries and liminal spaces through a series of “double lives,” in which the other is ultimately found within the home context and potentially subversive centralities outside of Jalna are sacrificed for the sake of representative marginalities at home.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2015-09-2186en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.subjectgenreen_US
dc.subjectbildungsromanen_US
dc.subjectdisabilityen_US
dc.subjectpsychosocialen_US
dc.subjectmarginalityen_US
dc.subjectCanadianen_US
dc.title“Such a sort of pariah”: Psychosocial Marginality and the Bildungsroman in Mazo de la Roche’s Whiteoaksen_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US
dc.type.materialtexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentEnglishen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglishen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Saskatchewanen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US

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