Settler Aesthetics: Visualizing the Spectacle of Originary Moments in the New World culture as well as from the

as well as from the Solomon Islands and Hawai'i

what it has been

Over the course of ten crucial years

Bringing forth the ways in which colonialism and cognitive imperialism have shaped Canadian curriculum and consciousness

This study is not about individuals who have been dispossessed by colonial policies

Settler Aesthetics: Visualizing the Spectacle of Originary Moments in the New World culture as well as from theIn Settler Aesthetics, an analysis of renowned director Terrence Malicks 2005 film, The New World, Mishuana Goeman examines the continuity of imperialist exceptionalism and settler colonial aesthetics. The story of Pocahontas has thrived for centuries as a cover for settler colonial erasure, destruction, and violence against Native peoples, and Native women in particular. Since the romanticized story of the encounter and relationship between