Unsettling Canadian art history

Morton, Erin, 1981- (editor.).

Summary: "Rethinking visual and material histories of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized disapora in the contested white settler state of Canada 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, Unsettling Canadian Art History 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."--

Record details

ISBN: 9780228010975
ISBN: 0228013283
ISBN: 9780228013280
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 340 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
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Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:april.23
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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
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Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 16, 2022).