EN 4220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Red River Rebellion, Print Culture, Indian Act
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Form + nationalism: there is no straight narrative of history, form is related the narrative. The rigidity of form in the text. Six panel format and all black and white. The content keeps succeeding the form: form also comes back to the passage of time. Thinking the standardization of time and the ideas of nations. Eras: the rise of print culture all creates an idea of a modern nation because it gives us an idea of the meanwhile . You will feel connected to people you never meet - you know that this is one enclosed world. The form of the novel anchors the idea of the nation. The founding of the metis people, early canadian history. Brown is engaging in this very particular project of national narrative - a nation within a nation. Nations are imagined communities: the figure of riel as a national hero. The desire to find a single heroic person for a nation.
