Margery Fee, Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” from Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat
If we believe that literature and culture are intimately entangled, if we believe that to read a literary text without attention to its historical, social or cultural context is invalid, then the central pressing question is how we identify and describe the relationship between text and context, the...
| Published in: | Commonwealth Essays and Studies |
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| Format: | Review |
| Language: | English |
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SEPC (Société d’études des pays du Commonwealth)
2016
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.4000/ces.4809 http://journals.openedition.org/ces/4809 |
| Summary: | If we believe that literature and culture are intimately entangled, if we believe that to read a literary text without attention to its historical, social or cultural context is invalid, then the central pressing question is how we identify and describe the relationship between text and context, the mechanism or process by which one reflects, conforms to, or is shaped by the other. This is an issue that all literary critics face. But it is particularly cogent for critics of colonial, postcolo. |
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