Gold Fisher, The

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Form	Short story
Genre	Gothic
Extract Regime	Gold
Extractive Stage	Extraction
Labour	[[:Category:\|]]
Infrastructure	Steam ship
Colonies represented	New Zealand
Colony Pub	New Zealand
Location	Otago
GPS	-45.86940002, 170.51100159

Author	Huia
Author Gender
Date	26/10/1897
Publication	Cromwell Argus

Notes

The Gold Fisher' (1897) follows the story of an Otago University student, Ebenezer Grookin, who surprisingly searches for gold not on land, but in the ocean. 'Knowing the secret of its composition, Grookin would be able to force the sea to disgorge the wealth it contained, and, as he truly shouted, the world was his.' Playing with the Dickensian Ebenezer, Grookin is eventually haunted by the images of the starving children of failed miners should he reveal to the world the ocean's golden riches. It is a fascinating story for the way it uses gothic tropes to emphasise the dangers of transferring extraction from the land to the sea. Mining on land is normalised and celebrated for supporting families, while Grookin's oceanic extraction inspires hate.

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