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- Title
Making Canada's 'Literary Land Claim': Marjorie Pickthall's 'The Third Generation'
- Authors
Dean, Misao
- Abstract
Theorists of the nation such as Renan, Bhabha and Grant have commented on the way that the narrative of nationality is founded upon the obligatory forgetting of an originary act of violence. Through the tropes of indigenzation and inheritance, Canadian fiction "forgets" indigenous peoples and Aboriginal title. But the Delgamuukw decision reminds us that the claim to unified nationhood in Canada is fractured at its base, in the uncertainty of the nation's legal claim to a relationship with the nation-space. This kind of fracture and uncertainty is the theme of Marjorie Pickthall's story, "The Third Generation," which appeared in her collection Angel's Shoes (1923).
- Subjects
PRINCIPLE of nationalities; PICKTHALL, Marjorie L. C.
- Publication
Journal of Canadian Studies, 2001, Vol 36, Issue 3, p24
- ISSN
0021-9495
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3138/jcs.36.3.24