Arts of Engagement

Name: Arts of Engagement
Brand: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
SKU: 9781771121705
Price: 22.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-1-771-12170-5

Taking Aesthetic Action In and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

de Dylan Robinson (éditeur), Keavy Martin (éditeur)

Maison d'édition : Wilfrid Laurier University Press

juillet 2016

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Résumé

Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Contributors here examine the impact of aesthetic and sensory experience in residential school history, at TRC national and community events, and in artwork and exhibitions not affiliated with the TRC. Using the framework of “aesthetic action,” the essays expand the frame of aesthetics to include visual, aural, and kinetic sensory experience, and question the ways in which key components of reconciliation such as apology and witnessing have social and political effects for residential school survivors, intergenerational survivors, and settler publics.

This volume makes an important contribution to the discourse on reconciliation in Canada by examining how aesthetic and sensory interventions offer alternative forms of political action and healing. These forms of aesthetic action encompass both sensory appeals to empathize and invitations to join together in alliance and new relationships as well as refusals to follow the normative scripts of reconciliation. Such refusals are important in their assertion of new terms for conciliation, terms that resist the imperatives of reconciliation as a form of resolution.

This collection charts new ground by detailing the aesthetic grammars of reconciliation and conciliation. The authors document the efficacies of the TRC for the various Indigenous and settler publics it has addressed, and consider the future aesthetic actions that must be taken in order to move beyond what many have identified as the TRC’s political limitations.

Auteur

Dylan Robinson (Edité par)

Dylan Robinson is a Stó:lō scholar who holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen’s University. His research focuses upon the sensory politics of Indigenous activism and the arts, and questions how Indigenous rights and settler colonialism are embodied and spatialized in public space. His current project documents the history of contemporary Indigenous public art across North America.
Keavy Martin (Edité par)

Heather Macfarlane enseigne la littérature canadienne au département d’anglais de la Carleton University (Ottawa). Elle a intégré la littérature amérindienne dans son corpus d’enseignement. Elle est en train d’écrire un livre qui établit une connexion entre les romans de voyage canadiens, québécois et amérindiens. Elle a également travaillé sur l’importance du souvenir dans la reconstruction de l’identité autochtoneet sur les discours de plusieurs écrivains autochtones du Canada et des États-Unis sur « la mémoire génétique » ou « la mémoire du sang ».