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Life Long Sorrow: Settler Affect, State and Trauma at Anne of Green Gables

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dc.contributor.authorRob Shields
dc.coverage.spatialAnne of Green Gables National Park, Cavendish PEI Canada; Avonlea, PEI CAnada
dc.coverage.temporal1900-1910
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T22:17:17Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T22:17:17Z
dc.date.issued2017-01-01
dc.descriptionThis 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
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7939/r3-8997-bx36
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.isversionofR. Shields ‘Life Long Sorrow: Settler Affect, State and Trauma at Anne of Green Gables’ in Settler Colonial Studies 8:4. 2017. pp. 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2017.138846R. S7
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectLucy Maud Montgomery
dc.subjectpostcolonial theory
dc.subjectsettler affect
dc.subjectsetter-colonialism
dc.subjectsettler-colonial literature
dc.subjectPEI
dc.subjectPrince Edward Island
dc.subjectCanada
dc.subjectspatialisation
dc.subjectspatialization
dc.subjectsocial spatialisation
dc.titleLife Long Sorrow: Settler Affect, State and Trauma at Anne of Green Gables
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
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