03284nam 22006615 450 991030000010332120240509025644.09783030004224303000422810.1007/978-3-030-00422-4(CKB)4100000007181178(MiAaPQ)EBC5607414(DE-He213)978-3-030-00422-4(Perlego)3491856(EXLCZ)99410000000718117820181128d2018 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFrontier Fictions Settler Sagas and Postcolonial Guilt /by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2018.1 online resource (282 pages)9783030004217 303000421X 1. The Settler Saga -- 2. Guilt and the Settler-Indigene Relationship -- 3. Guiltscapes of the Homestead, Village, and Fort -- 4. Settler Guilt and Animal Allegories -- 5. The Lost Settler Child.This book compares the nineteenth-century settler literatures of Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United States in order to examine how they enable readers to manage guilt accompanying European settlement. Reading canonical texts such as Last of the Mohicans and Backwoods of Canada against underanalyzed texts such as Adventures in Canada and George Linton or the First Years of a British Colony, it demonstrates how tropes like the settler hero and his indigenous servant, the animal hunt, the indigenous attack, and the lost child cross national boundaries. Settlers similarly responded to the stressors of taking another's land through the stories they told about themselves, which functioned to defend against uncomfortable feelings of guilt and ambivalence by creating new versions of reality. This book traces parallels in 20th and 21st century texts to ultimately argue that contemporary settlers continue to fight similar psychological and cultural battles since settlement is never complete.LiteratureAmericaLiteraturesComparative literatureLiterature, Modern19th centuryLiterature, Modern20th centuryLiterature, Modern21st centuryWorld LiteratureNorth American LiteratureComparative LiteratureNineteenth-Century LiteratureContemporary LiteratureLiterature.AmericaLiteratures.Comparative literature.Literature, ModernLiterature, ModernLiterature, ModernWorld Literature.North American Literature.Comparative Literature.Nineteenth-Century Literature.Contemporary Literature.823.92099287820.935820971241Weaver-Hightower Rebeccaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut908591BOOK9910300000103321Frontier Fictions2242490UNINA