Residential School Gothic and Red Power
Genre Friction in Rhymes for Young Ghouls
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19004272 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Henderson (0000-0002-6394-336X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 43-66 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Indian Culture and Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-6463 • E-ISSN: 0161-6463 |
| Publisher | California Digital Library (CDL) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17953/aicrj.42.4.henderson |
| OpenAlex | W2980563216 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Rhymes for Young Ghouls is a hyper-stylized film, extremely conscious of the way narrative conventions are organized into genres. In telling a story about a Mi'kmaw girl's leadership of a revenge plot, the film juxtaposes the genres—and the very different models of time-space—of the Gothic novel and the Red Power-era exploitation film. I read this jolting combination as a critical intervention into what I call Residential School Gothic, a dominant discourse on the historical wrong of Indian residential schooling which has emerged in Canada over the past two decades. The film's immanent critique of this public narrative template for telling stories about residential school exposes some of the crucial ways in which Residential School Gothic serves to reconfirm a settler common sense about liberal progress
Aesthetics · Art · Girl · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Residential school · Sociology · Stylized fact · Visual arts · American Sports and Literature · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |