By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
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Dr. Joan Sangster explores relationship between colonialism and popular images of northern Aboriginal experience
“Our identity in Canada is caught up in the North, but ironically, Indigenous people have very different views of the North than southerners,” says Dr. Joan Sangster, professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Trent University, commenting on the release of her latest book, The Iconic North: Cultural Constructions of Aboriginal Life in Postwar Canada.
The Iconic North examines how cultural representations of the North were an integral part of colonial relations between Indigenous peoples and settlers and how those intertwined with North-South relations, particularly in the period following the second world war.
“The book is not about how Indigenous people saw the North,” Professor Sangster explains. “It’s about how cultural representations and images constructed by southern media, visitors, and writers became implicated in the public perception of the North, in state policy, in film, and popular education, and how those became taken-for-granted views of Indigenous people.”
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