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Unsettling Canadian art history / edited by Erin Morton.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colonization in art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (359 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, this collection addresses visual and material cultural histories of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada, offering new perspectives for decolonial and anti-racist scholarship on art, archives, and creative practice.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Unsettling Canadian Art History
- Unsettling Settler Methodologies, Re-centring Decolonial Knowledge
- White Settler Tautologies and Pioneer Lies in Mi'kma'ki
- Notes to a Nation: Teachings on Land through the Art of Norval Morrisseau
- Embodying Decolonial Methodology: Building and Sustaining Critical Relationality in the Cultural Sector
- Silence as Resistance: When Silence Is the Only Weapon You Have Left
- Excavating and Creating Decolonial Archives
- Truth Is No Stranger to (Para)fiction: Settlers, Arrivants, and Place in Iris Häussler´s He Named Her Amber, Camille Turner´s BlackGrange, and Robert Houle´s Garrison Creek Project
- “Ran away from her Master … a Negroe Girl named Thursday”: Examining Evidence of Punishment, Isolation, Trauma, and Illness in Nova Scotia and Quebec Fugitive Slave Advertisements
- “Miner with a Heart of Gold”: Native North America, Vol. 1 and the Colonial Excavation of Authenticity
- Excavation: Memory Work
- Reclaiming Sexualities, Tracing Complicities
- Bear Grease, Whips, Bodies, and Beads: Community Building and Refusing Trauma Porn in Dayna Danger's Embodied 2Spirit Arts Praxis
- Coming Out a l'Oriental: Diasporic Art and Colonial Wounds
- Indian Americans Engulfing “American Indian”: Marking the “Dot Indians'” Indianness through Genocide and Casteism in Diaspora
- Figures
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Morton, Erin Unsettling Canadian Art History
- ISBN:
- 0-2280-1328-3
- OCLC:
- 1286620754
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