ENG252Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mcclelland & Stewart, Heteronormativity, Taxidermy
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Wacousta: gender and sexual politics and how they interact with the settler colonial project expressed in the novel, wacousta is a manifestation of the primitive impulses and desires that haunted the early. Persons : so aligning this indigeneity with non-human foreshadows this language. Instead of adhering to her prescriptive role of gendered and racial purity she transgresses it: ellen begs for mercy for frank, pg. 129: never was grief more forcibly depicted, than in the whole appearance of this unfortunate woman; never did anguish assume a character more fitted to touch the soul, or to command respect. If the officers gazed for a moment with excited look upon charms that had long been strangers to their sight, and of an order they had little deemed to find in. Ellen halloway, it was but the involuntary tribute rendered by nature unto beauty.
