Freshwater Fury: A Novel
Date
2022-09-23
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0000-0002-8710-398X
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Thesis
Degree Level
Masters
Abstract
Freshwater Fury is Gothic Crime Fiction that recounts crime in Sarnia, Ontario, a community on the south-westernmost tip of Lake Huron. In a town whose existence is entwined with the water, Freshwater Fury paints a metaphor of the shipwrecks in Lake Huron and the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 as reflective of crime in Sarnia to demonstrate how the “storms of life” linger. In Freshwater Fury, Aimee Mors, a research assistant, and Constable Guy Abesse, a disabled police officer, investigate the historic sinking of the SS Wexford after a supernatural experience on Lake Huron brings them together. When historian Dr. Lilith Stone drowns, her death unravels a one-hundred-year-old mystery that pins Aimee and Abesse for her murder. Drawing from Gothic literature’s interest in supernatural realism, Freshwater Fury combats the popular Crime Fiction “Mountie” narrative and Canada’s post-colonial relationship with the law and land, treating crime in Sarnia as a complex and multifaceted issue. In Freshwater Fury, everyone has a hand in societal deprivation.
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Gothic
Crime Fiction
Canadian
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Degree
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Department
English
Program
Writing