Rough and Plenty - (Life Writing) by Raymond A Rogers (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Compares the displacement of Nova Scotia fishers in the 1990s with that experienced by Scottish crofters in the 19th century. Using first-hand accounts, Rogers shows how both groups experienced marginalization and displacement as capitalism decimated their worlds. The book gives voice to people otherwise ignored by the historical record.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>As a commercial fisher in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s, Raymond Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada's East Coast fishery first-hand. </b>Afterward, while preparing to leave the province to find work elsewhere, Rogers noticed a lone gravestone across the road from his home in Shelburne County that commemorates the life of Donald McDonald, a crofter from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, who "departed this life" in 1881. Rogers wondered if there might be a connection between the necessity of his own departure, and McDonald's lonely presence on the nearby Atlantic shore, linking them as members of local communities that were displaced in the name of "economic progress."</p><p> In <i>Rough and Plenty: A Memorial, </i>Rogers explores the parallel processes of dispossession suffered by nineteenth-century Scottish crofters expelled from their ancestral lands during the Highland Clearances, and by the marginalization of coastal fishing communities in Nova Scotia. The book aims to memorialize local ways of life that were destroyed by the forces of industrial production, as well as to convey the experience of dislocation using first-hand narratives, recent and historical. The author makes the case that in a world where capital abhors all communities but itself, remembering becomes a form of advocacy that can challenge dominant structures. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"As brilliant, evocative, and narratively complex as a Stan Rogers song blended with the gritty, exacting realism of George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier, this book grabs you slowly, but then won't let go, as it draws portraits of communities now lost in the "merciless and self-congratulating power of progress and improvement."</p> - Ruth Bradley-St.-Cyr - Canadian Literature - 202103<br><br>"<i>Rough and Plenty</i> is a moving testimony to the tragedies and griefs of dispossession that can result from the modern(izing of) capitalist economies in the old world and the new." -- Rosemary E. Ommer, University of Victoria, author of Coasts Under Stress<br>
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