This book compares the nineteenth-century settler literatures of Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United States in order to examine how they enable readers to manage guilt accompanying European settlement. Reading canonical texts such as
Last of the Mohicans and
Backwoods of Canada against underanalyzed texts such as
Adventures in Canada and
George Linton or the First Years of a British Colony, it demonstrates how tropes like the settler hero and his indigenous servant, the animal hunt, the indigenous attack, and the lost child cross national boundaries. Settlers similarly responded to the stressors of taking another’s land through the stories they told about themselves, which functioned to defend against uncomfortable feelings of guilt and ambivalence by creating new versions of reality. This book traces parallels in 20th and 21st century texts to ultimately argue that contemporary settlers continue to fight similar psychological and cultural battles since settlement is never complete.
Last of the Mohicans and
Backwoods of Canada against underanalyzed texts such as
Adventures in Canada and
George Linton or the First Years of a British Colony, it demonstrates how tropes like the settler hero and his indigenous servant, the animal hunt, the indigenous attack, and the lost child cross national boundaries. Settlers similarly responded to the stressors of taking another’s land through the stories they told about themselves, which functioned to defend against uncomfortable feelings of guilt and ambivalence by creating new versions of reality. This book traces parallels in 20th and 21st century texts to ultimately argue that contemporary settlers continue to fight similar psychological and cultural battles since settlement is never complete.
€90.94
Table des matières
1. The Settler Saga.- 2. Guilt and the Settler-Indigene Relationship.- 3. Guiltscapes of the Homestead, Village, and Fort.- 4. Settler Guilt and Animal Allegories.- 5. The Lost Settler Child.
A propos de l’auteur
Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is Professor of English at North Dakota State University, USA. Her publications includeEmpire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals and Fantasies of Conquest (2007),
Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance with Peter Hulme (2014), and
Archiving Settlement: Culture, Space and Race with Yuting Huang (2018). She works with postcolonial literature and film.
Achetez cet ebook et obtenez-en 1 de plus GRATUITEMENT !
Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 247 ● ISBN 9783030004224 ● Taille du fichier 3.9 MB ● Maison d’édition Springer International Publishing ● Lieu Cham ● Pays CH ● Publié 2018 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 6734747 ● Protection contre la copie DRM sociale
Plus d’ebooks du même auteur(s) / Éditeur
67 874 Ebooks dans cette catégorie
