Title & Author:

Unsettling Canadian art history / edited by Erin Morton.

Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022.
©2022

Description:

xviii, 340 pages : illustrations (some in colour) ; 26 x 21 cm.

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-325) and index.
Introduction: Unsetting Canadian art history / Erin Morton -- Part one: Unsettling settler methodologies, re-centring decolonial knowledge -- White settler tautologies and pioneer lies in Mi'km'ki / Travis Wysote and Erin Morton -- Notes to a nation: Teachings on land through the art of Norval Morrisseau / Carmen Robertson -- Embodying decolonial methodology: Building and sustaining critical relationality in the cultural sector / Leah Decter and Carla Taunton -- Silence as resistance: When silence is the only weapon you have left / Lindsay McIntyre -- Part two: 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 / Mark A. Cheetham -- "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 / Charmaine A. Nelson -- "Miner with a heart of gold": Native North America, Vol.1 and the colonial excavation of authenticity / Henry Adam Svec -- Excavation: memory work / Sylvia D. Hamilton -- Part three: Reclaiming sexualities, tracing complicities -- Bear grease, whips, bodies, and beads: community building and refusing trauma porn in Dayna Danger's Embodied 2Spirit Arts Praxis / Dorian J. Fraser, Dayna Danger, and Adrienne Huard -- Coming out a l'oriental: diasporic art and colonial wounds / Andrew Gayed -- Indian Americans engulfing "American Indian": marking the "Dot Indians" Indianess through genocide and casteism in diaspora / Shaista Patel.
Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the artist name level (June 11, 2024)
Issued also in electronic format.

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, 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." -- Publisher's Description.

ISBN:

9780228010975 (cloth)
0228010977 (cloth)
9780228010982 (paper)
0228010985 (paper)
epdf
9780228013280

Subject:

Art and society Canada.
Colonization in art.
Art and race.
Art Canada History.
Art, Canadian.
Art et société Canada.
Colonisation dans l'art.
Art et race.
Art Canada Histoire.
Art canadien.
Art
Art and society
Canada

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Morton, Erin, 1981- editor.
McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315509
Call No.: 315509
Copy: 1
Status: Available