Survival of the settler subject: Lee Frew, ‘”A Whole New Take on Indigenous”: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake as Wild Animal Story’, Studies in Canadian Literature, 2019 | settler colonial studies blog

Survival of the settler subject: Lee Frew, ‘”A Whole New Take on Indigenous”: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake as Wild Animal Story’, Studies in Canadian Literature, 2019

02Aug19

Excerpt: As such, Atwood’s novel inevitably rehearses the expedient disavowal of Second World cultural nationalism: ongoing colonizing acts are obscured by the text’s privileging of a settler subject-position imagined as beset by the imperium of modernity.

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Settler colonialism is a global and transnational phenomenon, and as much a thing of the past as a thing of the present. Settlers 'come to stay': they are founders of political orders who carry with them a distinct sovereign capacity.
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