Abstract
Critics often read Trailer Park Boys’s presentation of white trash images as evidence of its rejection of traditional markers of Nova Scotian identity. This essay examines the way in which the work of contemporary literary, historical, and cultural studies scholars on white trash interacts with some of the themes and images present in Trailer Park Boys; this essay focusses on understanding how these ideas circulate in contemporary Nova Scotia. With anxieties surrounding race in Halifax and Nova Scotia as a backdrop, Trailer Park Boys constructs an organic community rooted in images of white trash culture.
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