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Unthinkable Communities, or the Categories of the Acadian Genocide.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Unthinkable Communities, or the Categories of the Acadian Genocide./
作者:	LeBlanc, Richard.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (314 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-12A.
標題:	History. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29166894click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798819369081

Unthinkable Communities, or the Categories of the Acadian Genocide.
LeBlanc, Richard.

Unthinkable Communities, or the Categories of the Acadian Genocide. - 1 online resource (314 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

The deportation of the Acadians from Nova Scotia by the British in 1755-1763, which decimated more than half the Acadian population and destroyed their community, is largely unknown in the global public sphere. In this dissertation, I explain this ignorance. Unlike previous scholars who treat the Acadian tragedy as a case of ethnic cleansing, I argue that the concept of genocide provides a narrative structure according to a target, a possible "intent," acts, and memory, which enables us to see the unidentified pattern of Acadian exclusion in history: cultural unthinkability. As early 17th century French settlers became Acadians through intermarriages with the Mi'kmaq, their Indigenous neighbors, they became neutrals in imperial conflicts. Considering this context, I show how European policies of settler colonialism lacked categories to grasp the cultural roots of Acadian neutrality, made Acadians a target as an unthinkable group, and resulted in a genocidal plan and acts that precluded authorities from representing Acadians coherently in Enlightenment racial discourse. I then unveil the role of Acadian memory in the creation of the term genocide, a story ignored by the literature, given the lasting Acadian inability to fit into identity norms. My argument opens up a reconsideration of how human societies produce otherness. Unlike Edward Said in Orientalism (1978), I illuminate a distinction between the other for whom a standard identity category is constructed, however biased or false, and the other for whom no official category is made, such as the unthinkable Acadian, largely erased from most historical narratives.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798819369081Subjects--Topical Terms:

516518
History.
Subjects--Index Terms:

AcadiansIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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