Precarious Territorializing, Contingent Territories in Michael Crummey’s The Innocents (2019)
With The Innocents, Michael Crummey revisits Newfoundland’s colonial history from the perspective of two isolated children who must negotiate uncertain passages into adulthood. This paper proposes to study the complex connections it delineates between the self and the territorialization of the outsi...
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| Опубликовано в: : | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ranam, |
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| Формат: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Язык: | Anglais |
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Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines
2024
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| Online-ссылка: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Итог: | With The Innocents, Michael Crummey revisits Newfoundland’s colonial history from the perspective of two isolated children who must negotiate uncertain passages into adulthood. This paper proposes to study the complex connections it delineates between the self and the territorialization of the outside world. By probing the inscription of its characters in territorializing processes, the novel indeed reflects on its own relation to land-claiming narratives. |
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