horseback or on foot, fights off danger with a dirk she has just been taught to wield, and has open air sex with her new husband. While connected to it, Claire is also a Sassenach, an outlander, within the highland landscape. While these programmes retain such conventional constructions of femininity in relation to nature and place, they also break new ground.


Atypically, though, it is the male bodies, and not the female, that bear the symbolic weight of representation in


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relation to landscape, region and nation.


It is the male bodies, and not the female, that bear the symbolic weight of representation in relation to landscape, region and nation.


In Outlander, the marking of Scotsman Jamie Fraser’s body through physical and sexual abuse by English Redcoat “Black” Jack Randall is a powerful and symbolic expression of the rape and conquest of Scotland by England. Randall’s sadistic, desiring gaze upon the flogging, subjugation and branding of Jamie Fraser’s body is a literalisation of the English violence towards, and colonisation of, Scotland as a territory. The bloody trenches that Randall mercilessly tears into Jamie’s back, the lines of scar tissue which he lecherously licks and his repeated rape signify not just violence and desire, but a remapping of flesh which is made symbolic of Scotish territory.


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