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Against the current and into the light : performing history and land in Coast Salish territories and Vancouver's Stanley Park /

"Performance embodies knowledge transfer, cultural expression, and intercultural influence. It is a method through which Indigenous people express their relations to land and continuously establish their persistant political authority. But performance is also key to the misrepresentation of Ind...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Couture, Selena (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
Series:McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 95.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Land, language, place names, and performance. Intervention: walking alongside Quelemia Sparrow's Ashes on the water
  • Reiterations of rededications: surrogated whiteness. Intervention: Michel Tremblay's For the pleasure of seeing her again
  • Vancouver's 1946 Diamond Jubilee: Indigenous archival interventions. Intervention: iterations of Marie Clements's The road forward
  • Indigenous performative interventions at Klahowya Village. Intervention: Tanya Tagaq and Robert Flaherty's Nonook of the North.