Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 2, Red Readings, December 30, 2018, pp. 63-79
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Article engages with the visual art of two different Indigenous women artists, Sarah Sense and Shan Goshorn, and the work it does to challenge colonial narratives and representations of Indigeneity, and Indigenous women by addressing "chasms of misunderstanding and collisions of cultural representation."
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 246-264
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Article discusses Tsimshian artist Frederick Alexcee (1853–1939) work, the way it represented his community of Lax Kw'alaams (Fort/Port Simpson) in the 1800s and 1900s, and the implications of that narrative.
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 207-226
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Author provides a historical analysis of “the returned gaze” in art by examining different images of Pocahontas beginning with Simon van de Passe's 1616 engraving Matoaka als Lady Rebecca; discusses how “the returned gaze” is used in contemporary works.