The Canadian Press Artists Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon say a Governor General’s Literary Award nod for their latest collaboration suggests their gleeful recentring of Indigeneity is entering the mainstream. “The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island,” is among dozens of finalists for the prestigious book awards announced Tuesday morning. “We’ve been making art to challenge the dominant narrative,” Monkman said in an interview. In Monkman and Gordon’s work, Miss Chief pokes fun at the gravitas and inevitability with which white settlers treat the colonial project by reminding the writers of history that Indigenous people were here all along, not as observers or victims but as participants. “So this recognition is rewarding because it means we’ve managed…
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