Exiled, Executed, Exalted: Louis Riel, Homo Sacer and the Production of Canadian Sovereignty
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kevin Bruyneel
Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 43, no. 3, 2010, pp. 711-732
Description
Looks at Riel's exile in 1870 after the Red River Rebellion; examines the tensions between French and English Canada over Riel's execution; and discusses the two statues which serve as a metaphor for the relationship between liberal and colonial dynamics in Canada political history.