GGRC24H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anti-Imperialism, Landscape Painting, Canadian Art
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Ggrc24 lecture 7 - art, nationalism, and anti-colonialism. The land is always outside the human experience. In the canadian story and image, if the protagonist is rash enough to venture into the countryside alone, he has a harrowing experience, he heads straight to towns, there"s nothing else, no new horizon, no beyond (loretta todd). The sense that land is external sets the stage for masculine identities. North is an idea", a complicated and contradictory set of discourses that constitute a particular imagining of the north. Contrapunctual: a series of layers that come together and assemble to create an image. Close relationships between the north and construction of the canadian nation. Geographies of inclusion and exclusion interwoven with different perspectives on the. The north is centrally an indigenous space in which human and non-human relations provide a model for ethical engagement and reconciliation. Fish provide an active sense of engagement. It"s more than symbolic or metaphorical, it"s literal.
