General:'Thick,' Indigenized, and Issue-specific Analysis
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|inst = Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art & Culture | |inst = Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art & Culture | ||
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| - | |selfDescription = | + | |selfDescription = My academic interests include early and contemporary Canadian and Aboriginal literatures; representations of captivity in colonial contact zones (primarily in Turtle Island/North America and Australia); issues of repatriation; visual culture (especially photography); historiography; and aspects of gender, race, and aboriginality in general. |
| - | |project = | + | |project = My doctoral dissertation, “Caught Up: Indigenous Re/presentations of Colonial Captivity,” examined the repression of, recovery of, and Indigenous response to, representations of pathogenic colonial practices of capturing and confining Indigenous peoples in the lands claimed by Canada, the United States, and Australia. My current project turns to a different aspect of Indigenous self-representation: the curative cultural practice of what I am calling “creative repatriation” or the conceptual (non-literal) relocation—through diverse artistic means, self-definition, and/or reference to Indigenous epistemologies—of First Nations items or subjects from (neo)colonial settings back to(wards) their communities of origin. The project aims to augment understandings of art’s value as a vehicle of self-definition, cultural recuperation and decolonization. |
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Name: Kate Higginson
Email: kate [at] kateh [dot] ca
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Role: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution: Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art & Culture
Field of Study/Creative Endeavor: Canadian and Aboriginal Story, Writing & Visual Culture
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My academic interests include early and contemporary Canadian and Aboriginal literatures; representations of captivity in colonial contact zones (primarily in Turtle Island/North America and Australia); issues of repatriation; visual culture (especially photography); historiography; and aspects of gender, race, and aboriginality in general.
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My doctoral dissertation, “Caught Up: Indigenous Re/presentations of Colonial Captivity,” examined the repression of, recovery of, and Indigenous response to, representations of pathogenic colonial practices of capturing and confining Indigenous peoples in the lands claimed by Canada, the United States, and Australia. My current project turns to a different aspect of Indigenous self-representation: the curative cultural practice of what I am calling “creative repatriation” or the conceptual (non-literal) relocation—through diverse artistic means, self-definition, and/or reference to Indigenous epistemologies—of First Nations items or subjects from (neo)colonial settings back to(wards) their communities of origin. The project aims to augment understandings of art’s value as a vehicle of self-definition, cultural recuperation and decolonization.
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