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Writing the Ethics of Water in Michael Ondaatje, Thomas King, and Anne Michaels

dc.contributor.authorGallant, Laura
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Artsen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.external-examinerN/Aen_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorLeonard Diepeveenen_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerTravis Masonen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerDavid McNeilen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorCarrie Dawsonen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-09T13:47:42Z
dc.date.available2010-09-09T13:47:42Z
dc.date.defence2010-09-02
dc.date.issued2010-09-09
dc.description.abstractIn July 2010, the United Nations declared access to water and sanitation a human right. Certainly a success for water rights advocates worldwide, this resolution also poses a number of questions, such as how to find and distribute this water on a planet that is running out of fresh water (Barlow et al, Blue Gold xi). With this question in mind, this thesis looks at the treatment of water management projects in Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion (1987), Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water (1993), and Anne Michaels’ The Winter Vault (2009). More specifically, it examines the ways competing visions of the common good and of what development should (and should not) look like are imbricated therein. In so doing, my discussion focuses on the inextricability of social justice from water justice and it suggests that narrative can play a key role in connecting the two.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/13044
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectcanadian literatureen_US
dc.subjectwater managementen_US
dc.subjectdammingen_US
dc.subjectOndaatje, michaelen_US
dc.subjectKing, thomasen_US
dc.subjectMichaels, anneen_US
dc.titleWriting the Ethics of Water in Michael Ondaatje, Thomas King, and Anne Michaelsen_US

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