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Pocahontas Looks Back And Then Looks Elsewhere: The Entangled Gaze In Contemporary Indigenous Art, Monika Siebert
Pocahontas Looks Back And Then Looks Elsewhere: The Entangled Gaze In Contemporary Indigenous Art, Monika Siebert
English Faculty Publications
In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, various genres of visual art in North America feature Indigenous subjects looking from the canvas or the screen at the viewers to interpellate them as implicated in the gaze framing the artwork. In this article, I provide an historical genealogy of this returned gaze, starting with Simon van de Passe’s 1616 engraving, Matoaka als Lady Rebecca. I show how subsequent depictions of Pocahontas depart from the reciprocal gaze of de Passe’s portrait and how contemporary art returns to this theme of the returned gaze, using Shelley Niro’s video work The Shirt (2003) …
[Introduction To] Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism And Colonial Entanglements, Julietta Singh
[Introduction To] Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism And Colonial Entanglements, Julietta Singh
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In Unthinking Mastery Julietta Singh challenges a core, fraught dimension of geopolitical, cultural, and scholarly endeavor: the drive toward mastery over the self and others. Drawing on postcolonial theory, queer theory, new materialism, and animal studies, Singh traces how pervasive the concept of mastery has been to modern politics and anticolonial movements. She juxtaposes destructive uses of mastery, such as the colonial domination of bodies, against more laudable forms, such as intellectual and linguistic mastery, to underscore how the concept—regardless of its use—is rooted in histories of violence and the wielding of power. For anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi, …
[Chapter 1 From] No Archive Will Restore You, Julietta Singh
[Chapter 1 From] No Archive Will Restore You, Julietta Singh
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At once memoir, theory, poetic prose, and fragment, No Archive Will Restore You is a feverish meditation on the body. Departing from Antonio Gramsci’s summons to compile an inventory of the historical traces left in each of us, Singh engages with both the impossibility and urgent necessity of crafting an archive of the body. Through reveries on the enduring legacies of pain, desire, sexuality, race, and identity, she asks us to sense and feel what we have been trained to disavow, to re-member the body as more than itself.
Manifest Destiny, American Domesticity, And The Role Of The Immigrant In Ruiz De Burton's Novels, Madison Rose Martinez
Manifest Destiny, American Domesticity, And The Role Of The Immigrant In Ruiz De Burton's Novels, Madison Rose Martinez
Honors Theses
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s novels Who Would Have Thought It?And The Squatter And the Donare important works of literature due to their representation of the MexicanExperience in the redefined expanding United States of the nineteenth century. The novelsprovide two perspectives of the time period by delving into the lives of Americans and Mexicans on both sides of the country.