Arts of Engagement - Taking Aesthetic Action In and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (Paperback)

Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Contributors here examine the impact of aesthetic and sensory experience in residential school history, at TRC national and community events, and in artwork and exhibitions not affiliated with the TRC. Using the framework of "aesthetic action," the essays expand the frame of aesthetics to include visual, aural, and kinetic sensory experience, and question the ways in which key components of reconciliation such as apology and witnessing have social and political effects for residential school survivors, intergenerational survivors, and settler publics. This volume makes an important contribution to the discourse on reconciliation in Canada by examining how aesthetic and sensory interventions offer alternative forms of political action and healing. These forms of aesthetic action encompass both sensory appeals to empathize and invitations to join together in alliance and new relationships as well as refusals to follow the normative scripts of reconciliation. Such refusals are important in their assertion of new terms for conciliation, terms that resist the imperatives of reconciliation as a form of resolution. This collection charts new ground by detailing the aesthetic grammars of reconciliation and conciliation. The authors document the efficacies of the TRC for the various Indigenous and settler publics it has addressed, and consider the future aesthetic actions that must be taken in order to move beyond what many have identified as the TRC's political limitations.

General

Imprint:	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	July 2016
Editors:	Dylan Robinson • Keavy Martin
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	382
ISBN-13:	978-1-77112-169-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples
LSN:	1-77112-169-6
Barcode:	9781771121699

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