Year: 2018, 2018
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This thesis focuses specifically on artistic projects that address violence against indigenous women and uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine their meaning and reception. I argue that the mainstream media has negatively stereotyped missing and murdered indigenous women and that art projects have the ability to reframe their lives to the viewing public. I focus on five case… more Full Text: REPRESENTATIONS OF MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN CANADIAN ART A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT …