“I work for the Fleurs-de-Lis” – Multiplying the ‘Two Solitudes’ and avant la lettre Canadianness in Frontier
The historical drama TV series Frontier is driven by an ambiguous imaginary of Northern North America in the late 1700s. It portrays English, Irish, Scottish, French and U.S.-American settlers variously cooperating with and instrumentalizing Indigenous nations in order to undermine the Hudson’s Bay...
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Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies
2020
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | The historical drama TV series Frontier is driven by an ambiguous imaginary of Northern North America in the late 1700s. It portrays English, Irish, Scottish, French and U.S.-American settlers variously cooperating with and instrumentalizing Indigenous nations in order to undermine the Hudson’s Bay Company’s fur trading monopoly. Through devices such as the episodes’ epigraphs and in its depiction of First Nations and Black characters, the series speaks to current debates and ongoing controversies surrounding the representation of Canadianness beyond the “two solitudes”. This paper analyzes how Frontier multiplies the “solitudes” in its re-imagination of the fur trade through various lines of interaction and conflict. |
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