Indian Princesses and Cowgirls: Stereotypes from the Frontier = Princesses indiennes et cow-girls: stéréotypes de la frontière
Rebecca Belmore, Marilyn Burgess, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
1995
In this bilingual publication, co-authors Gail Guthrie Valaskakis and Marilyn Burgess share their personal collections of historical and contemporary images of Indian princesses and cowgirls culled from the living archives of North American popular culture. Their critical essays challenge the ethnocentrism of the frontier and claim its imagery and folklore as a largely unrecognized but integral part of our collective post-colonial cultural identity. Artwork by artist Rebecca Belmore, created especially for the project, adds an ironic commentary to this imagery and folklore. Together, the essays and the book offer an original, feminist, and Indigenous view of how race and gender are produced in frontier popular culture. This publication originated from an exhibition of the same name, held at Oboro in May 1992, that went on to tour to numerous locations.
Oboro
Oboro
Identifier
L0242Call Number
E98 W8 B87 1995Extent
83 pages : illustrations ; softcover 24 cmLanguage
ISBN
29800725931Place of Publication
Montreal, QCPublication Type
PrintContributor
Beth SeatonArtist
Rebecca BelmorePublisher
OboroCollection
grunt gallery LibraryCopyright Oboro, Rebecca Belmore, Marilyn Burgess, Beth Seaton, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis.