University of British Columbia Press Moray, G: Unsettling Encounters

Unsettling Encounters radically re-examines Emily Carr's achievement in representing Native life on the Northwest Coast in her painting and writing. Carr's famous, highly expressive later paintings were based to a great extent on her early experiences traveling to First Nations communities. Moray explores Carr's participation, with the Group of Seven, in an agenda of building a national culture and her sense of her own position as a woman artist in this masculine arena.