Analysis of 'The Shipping News' by Annie Proulx concerning the issue 'Retreat From The Global'

The Shipping News Not so long ago, countries and communities were identifies on their culture and heritage, it was what made us unique to our homeland. But in recent years, through the breaking down of communication and social barriers, the degree of separation that once defined our culture has diminished. As a result, our unique ways, our identity is being lost. The cause of this loss, globalisation is steaming ahead at an increasing speed and …

…out in this novel, thus shaping her text through her desire to reflect the negative aspects of globalisation. Finally, it is through Proulx's representation of the local that she voices to the reader her belief in the local over the global. Through the settings and charactors she creates along with other techniques she highlights the negative connotations of the global and how along with it the local is being overrun and will eventually be destroyed.