ENG353Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Haisla Nation, Kitimat, Magic Realism
Document Summary
Kitimaat in british columbia, haisla culture cultural hybridity. Gothic tropes of canadian literature pop culture horror and pulp fiction. Children who are caught in the spirals of the previous generation, growing up in the shadow of violence/the supernatural systematic violence how it finds its way out of the past and into the present. Teenagers coming into themselves as well as their supernatural powers (supernatural coming of age) awareness of a tradition she doesn"t know about. Northern gothic trauma trauma and ptsd. Using fantasy and horror as a way of speaking about what has happened to the haisla nation after contact with colonialism. Beginning invitation into the novel and tells us we are foreigners. Narrator (lisa) tells us knowledge that we don"t. P. 4 find a map haisla territory maps are associated with colonialism, linguistic register in an imperative voice that tells us what to do (claim her territory) teaching us while establishing authority.
