Unsettling Canadian Art History

by Erin Morton (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780228010982
Publisher:	McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date:	06/15/2022
Series:	McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History , #38
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Erin Morton is professor of visual culture in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction: Unsettling Canadian Art History Erin Morton 3

Part 1 Unsettling Settler Methodologies, Re-centring Decolonial knowledge

1 White Settler Tautologies and Pioneer Lies in Mi'kma'ki Travis Wysote Erin Morton 45

2 Notes to a Nation: Teachings on Land through the Art of Norval Morrisseau Carmen Robertson 65

3 Embodying Decolonial Methodology: Building and Sustaining Critical Relationality in the Cultural Sector Leah Decter Carla Taunton 87

4 Silence as Resistance: When Silence Is the Only Weapon You Have Left Lindsay McIntyre 112

Part 2 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 Mark A. Cheetham 141

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 Charmaine A. Nelson 160

7 "Miner with a Heart of Gold": Native North America, Vol. 1 and the Colonial Excavation of Authenticity Henry Adam Svec 179

8 Excavation: Memory Work Sylvia D. Hamilton 195

Part 3 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 Dorian J. Fraser Dayna Danger Adrienne Huard 215

10 Coming Out a l'Oriental: Diasporic Art and Colonial Wounds Andrew Gayed 241

11 Indian Americans Engulfing "American Indian": Marking the "Dot Indians'" Indianness through Genocide and Casteism in Diaspora Shaista Patel 270

Figures 293

Bibliography 297

Contributors 327

Index 329