ENGL 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ecocriticism, Canadian Literature, Intersectionality
4 Apr 2018
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Moose meat and wild rice: language, culture, progress narratives, colonialism, trauma, intergenerational violence, economic/resource disparities, land, community, satire, comedy/sardonic readings, irony, colonialism. Part 1: moves from the inside layer out but is mindful of showing how colonialism and settler narratives influence the innermost part of moose meaters lives, culture and choices. Text moves from stories of moose meaters engaging with each other, their land, and traditions, embodying a comedic narrative style that gestures towards the various manifestations of colonial violence. Within the second section of the text, we see moose meat point be infiltrated by settler christian society, who asserts control and is the physical embodiment of colonialism on the reserve. This section shows ideological and cultural chaffing against the restrictions placed on them by settler epistemologies. Part 3 of the text brings together elements of the first two parts.
