Under Salted Earth
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Hunnef, Jenna | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Cariou, Warren | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Cichon, Mike | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Benning, Sheri | |
| dc.creator | Schalk, Owen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-01T19:51:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-01T19:51:42Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2024 | |
| dc.date.created | 2024-09 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-10-01 | |
| dc.date.submitted | September 2024 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2024-10-01T19:51:43Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Under Salted Earth is a novel that borrows from several genres such as the New Weird, prairie realism, and eco-fiction to explore the deleterious effects of industrial agriculture in rural Manitoba. The intergenerational plot, alternating between 1950 and the present day, involves the arrival of a beast based on the Bahkauv of German folklore, a creature from the city of Aachen which, according to legend, looked like a fanged calf and attacked intoxicated men at night. In my reworking of this old German tale, a similar beast travels to a village in rural Manitoba and demands massive quantities of food from its unprepared inhabitants. As such, the village – a mixture of inhabitants including settlers and members of Indigenous communities – must work together to appease it. Themes include displacement/dispossession, monstrosity and otherness, and the necessity of engaging critically with personal and regional histories to foster a more ecological way of being. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10388/16122 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | Prairies | |
| dc.subject | novel | |
| dc.subject | eco-fiction | |
| dc.subject | New Weird | |
| dc.title | Under Salted Earth | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.material | text | |
| thesis.degree.department | English | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | English | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Saskatchewan | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) |