Representation as Colonial Rhetoric : The Image of ‘the Native’ and ‘the Habitant’ in the Formation of Colonial Identities in Early Nineteenth-Century Lower Canada

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Title
Representation as Colonial Rhetoric : The Image of ‘the Native’ and ‘the Habitant’ in the Formation of Colonial Identities in Early Nineteenth-Century Lower Canada
Abstract
Depictions of Aboriginal peoples and rural French-Canadians were used by both Anglophone and Francophone artists in Lower Canada between 1820 and 1850 to tell their respective versions of Canadian history. The author argues that an analysis of representations of Aboriginal peoples and habitants produced by Anglophone artists in the first half of the nineteenth century shows a quite different attitude towards national identity from that seen in the work of the leading French-Canadian painter Joseph Légaré.
Publication
The Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d’histoire de l’art canadien
Volume
Vol. 16
Issue
no. 1
Pages
10-29
Date
1994
Language
en
URL
Citation
Poulter, Gillian. “Representation as Colonial Rhetoric : The Image of ‘the Native’ and ‘the Habitant’ in the Formation of Colonial Identities in Early Nineteenth-Century Lower Canada.” The Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d’histoire de l’art canadien Vol. 16, no. 1 (1994): 10–29. http://jcah-ahac.concordia.ca/fr/archive/1994_16-1.
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