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Life Long Sorrow: Settler Affect, State and Trauma at Anne of Green Gables
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This paper contributes a definition of ‘settler affect’ using Lucy Maud Montgomery's early 20th century series of novels Anne of Green Gables series of novels. The adopted protagonist, Anne, struggles to become ‘of Green Gables’ and to fit in to rural community despite her red hair, difference and impetuous character and then to succeed in life the subsequent books in the series. Empowering and disempowering ‘settler affect’ and traumas related to colonialism are traced as temporal-spatial relations and as affect anchored in the interactions of the characters with each other and with places. The State-sponsored transference of settler affect to modern day citizens in Anne of Green Gables through role-playing and immersion in tourist sites and theme parks is discussed in terms of virtual ‘as-if-ness’ and the semiotics of artifice. A corrected version of this paper appears in Settler Colonial Studies 8:4. 2017. pp. 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2017.1388467
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- 2017-01-01
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