The demise of the Beothuk as a past still present

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dc.contributor.authorOwen, Suzanne
dc.contributor.funderBritish Academy, United Kingdom
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-10T11:26:15Z
dc.date.available2015-08-10T11:26:15Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis article aims to investigate contemporary cultural representations of the Beothuk Indians in art, literature and museum displays in Newfoundland, Canada, focussing on ways these reimagine the past for the present, offering perspectives on contested histories, such as the circumstances leading to the demise of the Beothuk. Wiped out through the impact of colonialism, the Beothuk are the ‘absent other’ who continue to be remembered and made present through the creative arts, largely at the expense of other indigenous groups on the island. Rather than focussing on the ‘non-absent past, according to Polish scholar Ewa Domańska, ‘instead we turn to a past that is somehow still present, that will not go away or, rather, that of which we cannot rid ourselves’ (2006, 346). Depictions of the last Beothuk are part of a cultural remembering where guilt and reconciliation are played out through media of the imaginationen
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationOWEN, S. 2015. The demise of the Beothuk as a past still present. Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, 2(1), 119-139.en
dc.identifier.endpage139en
dc.identifier.issn2009-7409
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religionsen
dc.identifier.startpage119en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/1880
dc.identifier.volume2en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherISASR in association with the Study of Religions, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://jisasr.org/
dc.rights©2015, The Author(s).en
dc.subjectIndigenousen
dc.subjectArten
dc.subjectRepresentationen
dc.subjectMemoryen
dc.subjectBeothuken
dc.subjectNewfoundlanden
dc.titleThe demise of the Beothuk as a past still presenten
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions (JISASR). Vol. 2, Issue 1, (2015)