De-framing the Indigenous Body. Ethnography, Landscape and Cultural Belonging in the Art of Pia Arke

The article presents the Greenlandic-Danish artist Pia Arke (1958-2007) and gives readings of various of her artworks, arguing that they attempt to negotiate a postcolonial condition. Arke was fascinated by the male European explorers and their fascination with the Arctic landscape, the Inuit and, n...

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Main Author: Kirsten Thisted
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2012-05-01
Series:Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/2318