ENG353Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kateri Tekakwitha, Leonard Cohen, Historical Method
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Foregrounds his presence (his image) in his works doppelgangers. The bodily and the spiritual moves between the sacred and the profane. Character is trying to move towards/reach mythical figure catherine tekakwitha. How we engage with the past how we try to construct the past afterwards (reanimate/bring into the present). Pulling people out of the past to write about them. Novel is a critique of historical writing, sexualizing figures of the past to bring her to the present. Canadian fiction treat this as an impossible pursuit similar to the process of writing a novel. Record of an unnamed narrator trying to write about a____ tribe. Wife is one of the last remaining as. Want to get closer to this interest in history. Historical writing is in danger of becoming violent and unethical the work you are doing (rescue someone from the past) just doing it for you and not looking at it objectively.
