Amelia Paget’s The People of the Plains : Imperialist and Ethnocritical Nostalgia
Twentieth-century representations of nostalgia as the mourning of a lost, idealized, organic communal identity often obscure the simultaneous but contradictory possibilities that nostalgia provides to narrative. Amelia Paget’s anthropological account of Cree, Ojibway, Assiniboine and Sioux First Nat...
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/jcs.37.2.47 2023-12-31T10:06:56+01:00 Amelia Paget’s The People of the Plains : Imperialist and Ethnocritical Nostalgia Hulan, Shelley 2002 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcs.37.2.47 https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/jcs.37.2.47 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Journal of Canadian Studies volume 37, issue 2, page 47-67 ISSN 0021-9495 1911-0251 History Cultural Studies journal-article 2002 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/jcs.37.2.47 2023-12-01T08:18:08Z Twentieth-century representations of nostalgia as the mourning of a lost, idealized, organic communal identity often obscure the simultaneous but contradictory possibilities that nostalgia provides to narrative. Amelia Paget’s anthropological account of Cree, Ojibway, Assiniboine and Sioux First Nations in Western Canada, The People of the Plains, makes use of an “imperialist nostalgia” that praises the West’s bright future as part of the new nation, while at the same time it deploys this same colonial mourning to introduce another version of nostalgia that undermines any celebration of the liberal nation-state. In this 1909 text, then, Paget manipulates nostalgia’s capacity both to conceal and to articulate criticisms of the past, and the present, about which she writes. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Journal of Canadian Studies 37 2 47 67 |
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Twentieth-century representations of nostalgia as the mourning of a lost, idealized, organic communal identity often obscure the simultaneous but contradictory possibilities that nostalgia provides to narrative. Amelia Paget’s anthropological account of Cree, Ojibway, Assiniboine and Sioux First Nations in Western Canada, The People of the Plains, makes use of an “imperialist nostalgia” that praises the West’s bright future as part of the new nation, while at the same time it deploys this same colonial mourning to introduce another version of nostalgia that undermines any celebration of the liberal nation-state. In this 1909 text, then, Paget manipulates nostalgia’s capacity both to conceal and to articulate criticisms of the past, and the present, about which she writes. |
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