LEADER 03284nam 22006615 450 001 9910300000103321 005 20240509025644.0 010 $a9783030004224 010 $a3030004228 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-00422-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000007181178 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5607414 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-00422-4 035 $a(Perlego)3491856 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007181178 100 $a20181128d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFrontier Fictions $eSettler Sagas and Postcolonial Guilt /$fby Rebecca Weaver-Hightower 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (282 pages) 311 08$a9783030004217 311 08$a303000421X 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aLiterature 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aComparative literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aWorld Literature 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aComparative Literature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 615 0$aLiterature. 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aComparative literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 14$aWorld Literature. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aComparative Literature. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 676 $a823.92099287 676 $a820.935820971241 700 $aWeaver-Hightower$b Rebecca$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0908591 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300000103321 996 $aFrontier Fictions$92242490 997 $aUNINA