The Confederation Group of Canadian Poets, 1880-1897

Bentley, D.M.R.

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“…The 'spectral native' was a particularly common figure among the Confederation poets, a group of writers working at the turn of the twentieth century who aimed to cultivate a uniquely Canadian literary voice and articulate the grounds for a budding Canadian nationalism. 16 One of their more celebrated members, Duncan Campbell Scott, also spent his career in the federal Department of Indian Affairs, holding the post of Deputy Superintendent from 1923-1932, the era during which some of the most restrictive and assimilative policies relating to Aboriginal peoples were crafted and implemented. While traveling into Northern Ontario to arrange for the surrender of Cree and Ojibway lands in 1905, Scott wrote a poem entitled 'Indian Place Names' that begins:…”

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“…16 One of their more celebrated members, Duncan Campbell Scott, also spent his career in the federal Department of Indian Affairs, holding the post of Deputy Superintendent from 1923-1932, the era during which some of the most restrictive and assimilative policies relating to Aboriginal peoples were crafted and implemented. While traveling into Northern Ontario to arrange for the surrender of Cree and Ojibway lands in 1905, Scott wrote a poem entitled 'Indian Place Names' that begins:…”

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cultural geographies essay: Indigenous spectrality and the politics of postcolonial ghost stories

Cameron

2008

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International audienceThis essay considers the politics of describing Indigenous peoples as ghostly or haunting presences. Focusing on the history of haunting tropes in Canadian cultural production and the recent re-emergence of the spectral Indigenous figure in, among other places, a wilderness park in southwestern British Columbia, I argue that the mobilization of haunting tropes to make sense of contemporary settler-Indigenous relations reinscribes colonial power relations and fails to account for the specific experiences and claims of Indigenous peoples. At a time when cultural geographers are contemplating the possibilities of a `spectral turn', this essay asks what politics are involved in deploying a spectro-geographical approach to studies of the colonial and postcolonial

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cultural geographies essay: Indigenous spectrality and the politics of postcolonial ghost stories

Cameron

2008

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Canadian Literature

Henderson

2015

The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature

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Literary production in Victorian Canada was shaped by challenges related to the predicament of culture in a settler colony, including the use of imported language and forms and the difficulty of staking claims to literature's rootedness or cultural distinctiveness. It was also shaped by conditions that dictated the transnational context of publication and readership: the lack of copyright protection for locally published books and, towards the end of the century, the dominance of American mass‐market culture. Mid‐century prose documented the great wave of immigration from the British Isles in descriptive sketches, life writing, and advice to prospective emigrants. In fiction the favored genres were historical romance and local color given the urgency of the need to supply Canada with a heroic past and with evidence of cultural particularity. Allegories of courtship and marriage adjudicated questions of cultural identity following the political absorption of French into English Canada. French Canada was incorporated as the premodern, mythic past of the new English‐speaking Dominion in historical romances. Indigenous characters appeared in the literature as the representatives of civilization in a primitive stage, although elements of their cultures were occasionally borrowed in the conscious myth‐making of Euro‐Canadians. The realist animal story is a notable departure from the rule of romance in fiction. In poetry, the period sees a transition from abstract patriotism and the enthusiastic conquering of nature to lyrics seeking reconciliation with nature and displaying a new sharpness of imagery.

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The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature

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Kröller²

2009

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The Confederation Group of Canadian Poets, 1880-1897

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cultural geographies essay: Indigenous spectrality and the politics of postcolonial ghost stories

cultural geographies essay: Indigenous spectrality and the politics of postcolonial ghost stories

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