Translators of the old ways’

The reinvention of Canadian English in ‘Jacob’ by Maria Campbell (Métis)

Bibliographic Data

ID12929937
AuthorsAnna Mongibello (0000-0003-0650-005X, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume28
Issue2
Pages247-263
Publication date2015-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBritish Journal of Canadian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1757-8078 • E-ISSN: 0269-9222
PublisherLiverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3828/bjcs.2015.15
OpenAlexW2174997902
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited15

The aim of this article is to highlight the strategies of defamiliarisation of Canadian English adopted by the contemporary Métis writer, Maria Campbell, in her story ‘Jacob’ (1995). Campbell appropriates and re-maps Canadian English into an ‘alterNative’ variety that can translate the memories of her nation while retaining traces of the colonial trauma: ‘Village English’, as the writer defines this new code, constitutes an example of the creative transformation of Canadian English and shows its ability to ‘carry’ the weight of Indigenous cultural memory

Archaeology · Art · Code (set theory · Colonialism · Indigenous · Literature · Programming language · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Media, Communication, and Education · Multilingual Education and Policy · Artificial Intelligence

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