ENG252Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Picturesque, Rhetorical Question, Silent Hunter
ENG – Letue
Ending of before tomorrow
• Gadas e killig – puts out the lamp
o Act of love?
o No choice?
• Powerful example of the effect of colonialism
• Emblematic of the hardships of living
• He fulfilled his duty to the family, really became a man
• Framed in the opening and ending by French and English songs
o Colonial and post-colonial relations?
o Affirms the violence of colonialism
o Allows the non-Inuit viewers to enter and leave the film
Settler Culture/ Writing
How to read them
• Synchronically (within their own frame)
• Diachronically (through the lens of various time frames, including our own)
• Lookig at Caada as a olo
• Via the gaze of the old world & that of the new
• From the exoticism registered in exploration narratives
To
• Settler literature
o As a narrative of domestication (110)
o The otherness perceived re:
o Landscape and people art
o Of the e atios self-imagine
Invader/settler colonialism
• In colonial discourse, the term settlers generally refers to Europeans who
move from their country of origin to European colonies
• Settler-invader: less than benign implications of this movement with regard
to Indigenous peoples
o They thought there were no people in the land
Two kinds of colonies
• Settler (or settler-invader) colonies: those where the invading Europeans (or
their descendants) annihilated, misplaced, or marginalised the indigenous
populations (Canada, Australia)
• Colonies of occupation: those where indigenous people remained in majority
but were controlled by the colonialists
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Document Summary
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