Timeplan 2024 Vår - emne KVI-2020-1

Buchan, Bruce. "The Hum(e)an Face of Enlightenment: On History and Racism", ABC, 17 Sep 2020. (7 pages)

Heike, Paul. 2014. “Christopher Columbus and the Myth of ‘Discovery.’” The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to American Studies, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, pp. 43–88.(46 pages).

Pratt, Stephanie. 2005. American Indians in British Art, 1700-1840. Ch. 1. pp. 12-29 (18 pages)

Said, Edward. 1994 [1993]. Culture and Imperialism. Vintage. pp. 1-15. (15 pages) 

Robert J.C. Young, Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. Chapter 1, pp. 1-11 (11 pages)

Pratt, Mary Louise. 2008. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. Routledge. 2nd edition.

Ch. 1. Introduction: Criticism in the contact zone, pp. 1-12 (12 pages)

Ch. 2. Science, planetary consciousness, interiors, pp. 15-36 (22 pages)

Pratt, Stephanie. 2005. American Indians in British Art, 1700-1840. Ch. Introduction, pp. 3-11. (9 pages)

Recommended reading (not compulsory): 

Fur, Gunlög. 2017. "Concurrences as a Methodology for Discerning Concurrent Histories", in Concurrent Imaginearies, Postcolonial Worlds: Toward Revised Histories, edited by Fur et. al. pp. 33-58. 

For topic on postcolonial studies, see literature from last week!

Smith, Bernard. 1992. Imagining the Pacific: in the Wake of the Cook Voyages. Yale University Press. kap. 1: “Art in the Service of Science and Travel”, pp. 1-39. (39 pages)

Kupperman, Karen.  "Roanoke's Achievement", in European Visions: American Voices, edited by Kim Sloan. pp. 3-13. (11 pages)

Rubiés, Joan-Pau. "Texts, Images, and the Perception of 'Savages' in Early Modern Europe: What We Can Learn from White and Harriot", in European Visions: American Voices, edited by Kim Sloan. pp.120-130 (10 pages).

Brienen, Rebecca Parker. 2007. Visions of Savage Paradise: Albert Eckhout, Court Painter in Colonial Dutch Brazil. “Introduction”, pp. 11-26. (16 pages)

Brienen, Rebecca Parker. 2014. “Who Owns Frans Post?”,The Legacy of Dutch Brazil, M. Van Groesen (red.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 249-272. (24 pages)

Schmidt, Benjamin. 2014. "The 'Dutch Atlantic' and the Dubious Case of Frans Post", in Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800, edited by Gert OOstindie and Jessica V. Roitman. pp. 249-272. (24 pages)

Brienen, Rebecca Parker. 2014. “Who Owns Frans Post?”,The Legacy of Dutch Brazil, M. Van Groesen (red.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 249-272. (24 pages)

Schmidt, Benjamin. 2014. "The 'Dutch Atlantic' and the Dubious Case of Frans Post", in Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800, edited by Gert OOstindie and Jessica V. Roitman. pp. 249-272. (24 pages)

McAleer, John and Rigby, Nigel. 2017. Captain Cook and the Pacific: Art, Exploration and Empire. Yale University Press. Ch. "Art", pp. 117-143 (27 pages)

Guest, Harriet. 2007. Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation: James Cook, William Hodges, and the Return to the Pacific. 
Ch. 1. "The Great Distinction", pp. 28-48. (21 pages)

McAleer, John and Rigby, Nigel. 2017. Captain Cook and the Pacific: Art, Exploration and Empire. Yale University Press.
Ch. "Art", pp. 117-143 (27 pages)

Pratt, Stephanie. 2005. American Indians in British Art, 1700-1840. 
Ch. 2–5, s. 30-153 (124 pages)

Barringer, Tim. 2002. “The Course of Empires: Landscape and Identity in America and Britain, 1820-1880”, in Tim Barringer and Andrew Wilton, American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880. pp. 39-65. (27 pages)

Kriz, Kay Dian. Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840,

Ch. Introduction "Assessing the Culture of Refinement", pp. 1-8. (8 pages)

Ch. 2 "Marketing Mulâtresses in Agostino Brunias's West Indian Scenes", pp. 37-70. (34 pages)

Recommended reading (not compulsory):

Klarer, Mario. "Humanitarian Pornography: John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796)." New Literary History 36.4 (2005): 559-587. (28 pages).

Pratt, Mary-Louise. 2008. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. Routledge. Andre utgave.

Ch. 5. Eros and abolition pp. 84-105 (21 pages)

Nelson, Charmaine. 2016. Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica:

Ch. 1: “Colonialism and art: Landscape and empire”, pp. 41-58 (18 pages)

Ch. 5: "Landscaping Jamaica", pp. 195-216 (22 pages)

Ch. 7 “James Hakewill’s Picturesque Tour: Representing life on nineteenth-century Jamaican sugar plantations”, pp. 277-340 (63 pages)

For information on coursework and group work, see separate instructions in Canvas / modules

1. Graduate Student Panel on Transatlantic Slavery

https://www.facebook.com/NSCAD/videos/562472244710431

2. Charmaine Nelson. Grappling with the Colonial Archive: an Introduction to Canadian Slavery

https://www.facebook.com/NSCAD/videos/764132501175279

Rodríguez, Luis Méndez, 2015. “Slavery and the Guild in Golden Age Painting in Seville”, Art in Translation, Vol. 7/1. pp. 123-139.(16 pages).

Fraccia, Carmen. 2004. “(Lack of) Visual Representation of Black Slaves in Spanish Golden Age Painting”, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Vol. 10/1. pp. 23-34. (11 pages).

Tobin, Beth Fowkes. Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting. Duke University Press. Ch. 1: “Bringing the Empire Home: The Black Servant in Domestic Portraiture”, pp. 27-54. (27 pages).

Høvik, Ingeborg and Sigfrid Kjeldaas. 2023. “Introduction: Counter-stories from the Arctic Contact Zone”, Interventions, pp. 865-877 (13 pages)

Wright, Alison. “Listening to Landseer’s Polar Bears”, Interventions, pp. 1054-1072 (19 pages)

Recommended, not compulsory:

Høvik, Ingeborg and Axel Jeremiassen. 2023. “Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Portrait of Qalaherriaq”, Interventions, pp. 975-1003.(28 pages)

09:15-13:00, Lecture, seminar, museum visit etc. Meet in town at Arctíc [Un]Límíted, Storgata 108.
13:00-14:00 Lunch (bring your own food)
14:00-15:00 Museum visit at Polarmuseet (participation in person only).

Lectures and seminar with group work (Coursework). Separate programme will be posted in Canvas!

Aamold, Svein. “Johan Turi's Ecology”, Interventions, pp. 878-901 (24 pages)

Smith, David. “An Athapaskan way of knowing: Chipewyan ontology» (21 pages)

Isham, James. excerpt from Observations on Hudsons Bay, 1743 (9 pages)

Recommended reading (not compuslory): 

Kjeldaas, Sigfrid. 2023. “Samuel Hearne, The Denesuline, and The Beaver: Zoology and Its Effect in an Early Canadian Natural-Cultural Contact Zone”, Interventions, pp. 1028-1053.

Coursework presentations