{"title":"Spaces of Agency: Installation Art in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For","authors":"V. Austen","doi":"10.14288/CL.V0I223.186487","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article establishes that Tuyen’s practice of installation art functions as a means of negotiating the past’s space within the present. By establishing Tuyen’s initial lack of control over the intrusion of her family’s loss into her physical surroundings, this essay perceives her art practice as Tuyen’s means of gaining agency over the spaces she inhabits and thereby over how the history of her family’s tragedy infiltrates these spaces. As this essay argues, in giving the past a material presence that can be bodily experienced, installation art, as represented by Brand, becomes a key means through which the destructive power of the traumatic past can be defused.","PeriodicalId":44701,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CANADIAN LITERATURE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CL.V0I223.186487","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, AFRICAN, AUSTRALIAN, CANADIAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: This article establishes that Tuyen’s practice of installation art functions as a means of negotiating the past’s space within the present. By establishing Tuyen’s initial lack of control over the intrusion of her family’s loss into her physical surroundings, this essay perceives her art practice as Tuyen’s means of gaining agency over the spaces she inhabits and thereby over how the history of her family’s tragedy infiltrates these spaces. As this essay argues, in giving the past a material presence that can be bodily experienced, installation art, as represented by Brand, becomes a key means through which the destructive power of the traumatic past can be defused.
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Canadian Literature aims to foster a wider academic interest in the Canadian literary field, and publishes a wide range of material from Canadian and international scholars, writers, and poets. Each issue contains a variety of critical articles, an extensive book reviews section, and a selection of original poetry.
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