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Notes and Commentaries

Volume 04, Number 1 (1979)

Crawford and the Indians: Allegory in The Helot

  • Robert Alan Burns
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1979-01-01

Abstract

Much of Isabella Valancy Crawford's work is structurally and thematically informed by a recurring dialectical pattern. Amon the opposing elements in the dialectic are features of two mythologies, European and North American Indian: white and red. Crawford's manipulation of colour imagery in The Helot, reinforces an allegorical dramatization of the historical pattern of Indian-white relations in Canada.