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Unsettling Canadian Art History
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2022
About this book
Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, Unsettling Canadian Art History addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada.
This collection offers new avenues for scholarship on art, archives, and creative practice by rethinking histories of Canadian colonialisms from Black, Indigenous, racialized, feminist, queer, trans, and Two-Spirit perspectives. Writing across many positionalities, contributors offer chapters that disrupt colonial archives of art and culture, excavating and reconstructing radical Black, Indigenous, and racialized diasporic creation and experience. Exploring the racist frameworks that continue to erase histories of violence and resistance, this book imagines the expansive possibilities of a decolonial future.
Unsettling Canadian Art History affirms the importance of collaborative conversations and work in the effort to unsettle scholarship in Canadian art and culture.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Erin Morton
Erin Morton is professor of visual culture in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick.
Reviews
"Unsettling Canadian Art History is an ambitious and important book that should be looked to as a model for further analyses of Canadian (art) history and will make a strong impact on researchers and professors of both undergraduate and graduate courses." *College Art Association Reviews *
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"Unsettling Canadian Art History shows the rich fruits that come from rigorous inclusivity and relationality. It achieves affirmation of the human condition in all its complexity through a hope-ridden grappling with materiality. Experiential knowledge and razor-sharp critical theory combine to create a humane and profoundly relevant collection of essays that is a must-read by broader audiences than art historians and their students." ARTiculate
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"This anthology inspires me to attune to how its authors enact shifting subjectivity and embodiment through the generative restaging of relationship." RACAR
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Unsettling Canadian Art History
3 - Unsettling Settler Methodologies, Re-centring Decolonial Knowledge
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White Settler Tautologies and Pioneer Lies in Mi'kma'ki
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Notes to a Nation: Teachings on Land through the Art of Norval Morrisseau
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Embodying Decolonial Methodology: Building and Sustaining Critical Relationality in the Cultural Sector
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Silence as Resistance: When Silence Is the Only Weapon You Have Left
112 - Excavating and Creating Decolonial Archives
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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
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“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
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“Miner with a Heart of Gold”: Native North America, Vol. 1 and the Colonial Excavation of Authenticity
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Excavation: Memory Work
195 - Reclaiming Sexualities, Tracing Complicities
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Bear Grease, Whips, Bodies, and Beads: Community Building and Refusing Trauma Porn in Dayna Danger's Embodied 2Spirit Arts Praxis
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Coming Out a l'Oriental: Diasporic Art and Colonial Wounds
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Indian Americans Engulfing “American Indian”: Marking the “Dot Indians'” Indianness through Genocide and Casteism in Diaspora
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Figures
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Bibliography
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Contributors
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Index
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June 9, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9780228013280
Edition:
3rd edition
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Keywords for this book
settler; slavery; diaspora; racism; colonialism; imperialism; art history; visual; material; culture; violence; empires; decolonial; anti-racist; queer; Two-Spirit; feminism; white; Black; Indigenous; racialized
