Re-visioning the Pregnant Body: Engaging with Elizabeth MacKenziefs Installation Radiant Monster

Radiant Monster, a multi-media work by Canadian artist Elizabeth MacKenzie, is situated within a larger Western feminist multi-disciplinary project of re-thinking the pregnant body. The installation's ambivalence about pregnancy is tied to the control patriarchy exercises over pregnant bodies, especially through verbal and visual representations, including those of medical technology.Radiant Monster, une oeuvre multi-media par l'artiste canadienne Elizabeth Mackenzie, est situde a l'interieur d'un plus grand projet Kministe occidental qui reflechit encore un coup sur le corp d'une femme enceinte. L'ambivalence de l'installation au sujet de la grossesse est reliee au controle que la patriarchie exerce sur les corps de femmes enceintes, surtout par l'entremise des representations verbales et visuelles, y compris celle de la technologie medicale

Painting the Body: Feminist Musings on Visual Autographies

In this paper I look at autographical depictions of the body in the work of Mato Ioannidou, a Greek woman artist, who participated in a wider narrative-based project on visual and textual entanglements between life and art. The paper unfolds in three parts: first, I give an overview of Ioannidou’s artwork, making connections with significant events in her life; then I discuss feminist theorizations of embodiment and visual auto/biography; and finally I draw on insights from Spinozist feminist philosophers to discuss the artist’s portrayal of women’s bodies in three cycles of her work. What I argue is that the body becomes a centerpiece in the attempt to perceive connections between life and art through expressionism rather than representation

Teaching the Talk That Walks on Paper: Oral Traditions and Textualized Orature in the Canadian Literature Classroom

Did [the grandmothers] know our memory and our talk would walk on paper?—Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe, “The Tears That Wove Our Songs” The call to include Aboriginal oral traditions in post-secondary English department curricula was among the urgings of the Canadian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies’ roundtable on Aboriginal Literatures in 2000, and this paper considers ways of beginning to answer that call. Roy Harris has suggested in his book The Origin of Writi..

Dubbing Chaucer and Beenie Man: Jean "Binta" Breeze's Re-Presentation of "Afrasporic" Women's Sexuality

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