ENG252Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Captivity Narrative, Before Tomorrow, Ethnographic Film
ENG 252 – Leture 5
Kidnapping
• Kidnapping 44, 50 - Cartier
o Captivity arratie
• Kidnapping Natives
o An established practice (Cartwright 65)
o Using them as specimens, interpreters, guides, concrete evidence of
discovery
o Vested interest: funding of next voyage
The return of the kidnapped
• Partly tamed and cultured
• Performing religion/ difference 45-46
• No account of their perceptions of French
• Monologic perspective
Cartwright
• The kidnapped/displaced Inuit
• As specimens and spectacles
o Performing their difference
• On dislay 66-67
• Objects of curiosity
• Employed as tools that assert
• European superiority
• Reversing the gaze 67
o The at preted the like hat the see
Attuiock & Ickongoque and their child Ickeuna
• Introduced to notable figures
• Dined in great houses
• Visit lodgings
• Both admired and held in contempt
• Overwhelmed by sights/sounds/smells
Noble Savage
• The other side of the saage paradig
• Stock figure in literature
• Idealised indigene
• The other not yet corrupted by civilisation
• Romanticising cultural difference
• Pg. 60 last paragraph
o Completely objectifies and demeans in order to feel any compassion
for the inuit
o gross igorae – different spiritual system
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