Settlers' Band: A Bad Class Consciousness
Settlers' Band: A Bad Class Consciousness
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The colonist, a middle figure who finds himself neither in the unlivable position of the colonized nor in the indefensible one of the colonizer, is generally relegated to the status of a supporting figure in the colonial narrative. Completing Memmi's diptych, Alain Deneault here reveals the useful, even indispensable, idiot of the land grab, a figure who exists only in absolute solidarity with the class that dominates him, but whose political and economic impotence allows him to identify, when appropriate, with the colonized. The setting in which Alain Deneault sets his character: Canada. Stuck between a colonial past that he wants to forget and a republican rise that is constantly postponed, this territory that we call "country" excels only in the mediocrity of its extreme center policies, but it delivers to political thought an important object: the condition of the colonist who was that of the majority of his population and who remains so in a thousand unacknowledged ways.
