Encounters on contested lands : Indigenous performances of sovereignty and nationhood in Québec

Summary: Encounters on Contested Lands analyzes films, plays, visual art, and protest marches by Indigenous artists in Quebec, Canada, to explore the performance of cultural identity, sovereignty, and nationhood in Quebec's independence movement--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 0810138964
ISBN: 0810138972
ISBN: 9780810138964
ISBN: 9780810138971
ISBN: 9780810138988
ISBN: 0810138980
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

General Note:	Revised and expanded version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, San Diego, 2014.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Nation, spectacle, and colliding narratives -- Neptune redux : the (First) Nation(s) enacted in Alexis Martin's Invention du chauffage central en Nouvelle-France -- Les racines imaginaires/mythical metissages : Quebec and the ruse of the metis turn -- Cinematic encounters on the reserve -- Endurance/enduring performance : Nadia Myre, La Marche Amun, and the Indian Act's tumultuous geographies -- Theater in contested lands : repatriating ancestors amid violence -- Conclusion.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 07, 2018).