ENGL 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: First Nations, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
12 Jan 2015
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Problems with term postcolonial to talk about canada term postcolonial assumes that the colonized people have taken back the nation and have reasserted their language as the principle language being spoken. Makes colonization the center of the discussion. Cherokee and greek, racial identity one that plays with borders his nationality, born and raised in california and then moved to canada. Borders sign that divide one entity from another (culture, race, gender, country) Invisible markers that are meant to divide two entities. These dividing lines point something ends and another begins. Porous place where we can begin something else. European cultural perspective borders mark difference. From native view, blackfoot cannot move back and forth. Title refers to king being mixed blood and nationality. Power of borders interested in the space between them. Inside/outside of border allows for understanding of what borders delineate. Allows understanding what are they marking off. Space from which to critique their seeming stability.
