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Unsettling Canadian Art History

edited by Erin Morton

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2022
Category
Canadian, Post-Confederation (1867-), Contemporary (1945-), Native American Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780228010982
    Publish Date
    Jun 2022
    List Price
    $55.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780228010975
    Publish Date
    Jun 2022
    List Price
    $150.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780228013280
    Publish Date
    Jun 2022
    List Price
    $150.00

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Description

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.

About the author

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

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