Unsettling Canadian Art History 9780228013280
Rethinking visual and material histories of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized disapora in the contested w
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Table of contents :
Cover
Unsettling Canadian Art History
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Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Unsettling Canadian Art History
Part One Unsettling Settler Methodologies, Re-centring Decolonial Knowledge
1 White Settler Tautologies and Pioneer Lies in Mi’kma’ki
2 Notes to a Nation: Teachings on Land through the Art of Norval Morrisseau
3 Embodying Decolonial Methodology: Building and Sustaining Critical Relationality in the Cultural Sector
4 Silence as Resistance: When Silence Is the Only Weapon You Have Left
Part Two Excavating and Creating Decolonial Archives
5 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
6 “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
7 “Miner with a Heart of Gold”: Native North America, Vol. 1 and the Colonial Excavation of Authenticity
8 Excavation: Memory Work
Part Three Reclaiming Sexualities, Tracing Complicities
9 Bear Grease, Whips, Bodies, and Beads: Community Building and Refusing Trauma Porn in Dayna Danger’s Embodied 2Spirit Arts Praxis
10 Coming Out a l’Oriental: Diasporic Art and Colonial Wounds
11 Indian Americans Engulfing “American Indian”: Marking the “Dot Indians’” Indianness through Genocide and Casteism in Diaspora
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Bibliography
Contributors
Index
