“Eine pittoreske Graumaskeit: Tourismus/Geschichte...

“Eine pittoreske Graumaskeit: Tourismus/Geschichte in Kanada und die Erzählung von Evangeline (ca. 1840-1960) [“A Picturesque Atrocity: Canadian Tourism/History and the Romance of Evangeline, 1840s-1960s”], in Angela Schwarz and Daniela Mysliwietz-Fleis, Reisen in die Vergangenheit (Cologne: Bölau Verlag GmbH & Cie, 2019), 263-282.

Abstract

Tourism-oriented history in Nova Scotia redeveloped a genocidal war crime of the 1750s--the expulsion of the Acadians--into a picturesque romance, via the use (and abuse) of Longfellow's poem Evangeline.

Authors

McKay I

Book title

Reisen in die Vergangenheit (Cologne: Bölau Verlag GmbH & Cie, 2019)

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