1. Amber-Dawn Bear Robe reflects on how photography conducted by settlers and missionaries was historically used to “assimilate, objectify, and control,” and as such functioned as a “tool of colonial oppression.” Reflect on how photographic imagery can convey a political message (think about frame, arrangement, and use). Consider how the examples in Bear Robe’s article use the medium of photography to respond to this problem.
Photographic imagery has the ability to strongly impact human perception of the political ideologies they contain or that are later attached to them by third parties. Just as song and dance generally convey emotion in a more impactful way than is possible through words written on paper, so do images invoke a deeper and …show more content…
Leanne Simpson and friends set Simpson’s poetry from Islands of Decolonial Love to song. Listen to the selected songs, select a passage you found especially impactful, and reflect on the affective differences between reading and listening to this passage. Explain why Simpson would choose this artistic medium for delivering her work in connection with Sylvia McAdam’s account of nehiyaw …show more content…
The female character speaks of ‘want[ing] to miss everything,’ a sign of the slow death of her culture and race being too painful to observe. Simpson is exhibits a contradictory response to this problem, her passage both agreeing and disagreeing with the statement. Her agreement is exhibited in the expression by both characters of a bereft feeling – an expression of a people who, having everything stripped from them, feel like they can do nothing but watch their race slowly slip away. However, this allusions to a ‘dying race’ is not due to the physical deaths of multiple people, but the cultural loss of the generations before and after them; not due to Indigenous people as an inferior race, but as recipients of active repression and unrelenting colonization. Simpson’s passage seems to show direct disagreement with the Razack’s statement through use of the male character speaking of ‘fighting like hell to the end of everything,’ exemplifying the anger and defiance that still exists in a people that maintains an unrelenting will to
Photographic imagery has the ability to strongly impact human perception of the political ideologies they contain or that are later attached to them by third parties. Just as song and dance generally convey emotion in a more impactful way than is possible through words written on paper, so do images invoke a deeper and …show more content…
Leanne Simpson and friends set Simpson’s poetry from Islands of Decolonial Love to song. Listen to the selected songs, select a passage you found especially impactful, and reflect on the affective differences between reading and listening to this passage. Explain why Simpson would choose this artistic medium for delivering her work in connection with Sylvia McAdam’s account of nehiyaw …show more content…
The female character speaks of ‘want[ing] to miss everything,’ a sign of the slow death of her culture and race being too painful to observe. Simpson is exhibits a contradictory response to this problem, her passage both agreeing and disagreeing with the statement. Her agreement is exhibited in the expression by both characters of a bereft feeling – an expression of a people who, having everything stripped from them, feel like they can do nothing but watch their race slowly slip away. However, this allusions to a ‘dying race’ is not due to the physical deaths of multiple people, but the cultural loss of the generations before and after them; not due to Indigenous people as an inferior race, but as recipients of active repression and unrelenting colonization. Simpson’s passage seems to show direct disagreement with the Razack’s statement through use of the male character speaking of ‘fighting like hell to the end of everything,’ exemplifying the anger and defiance that still exists in a people that maintains an unrelenting will to