Contemporary Aboriginal Art Texts: Intersections of Visual Culture
Theses
Author/Creator
Andrea Naomi Walsh
Description
Social Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2000.
Looks at one way to cross the cultural boundary in Aboriginal literature by examining the purpose of author Maria Campbell, in Halfbreed, Beatrice Culleton, in In Search of April Raintree, and Lee Maracle, in I Am Woman.
Brief discussion of artists' right to control reproduction and exhibition of their work and their moral right to the integrity of their creations.
Relates how a non-Aboriginal parent's right to harvest organs and cremate an adoptive son superseded a Cree biological mother's right to bury her adult son according to First Nation spiritual and cultural beliefs.
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