Against the Current and Into the Light: Performing History and Land in Coast Salish Territories and Vancouver's Stanley Park Volume 95

by Selena Couture

Book Overview

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 persistent political authority. But performance is also key to the misrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in settler colonial societies. Against the Current and Into the Light challenges dominant historical narratives of the land now known as Stanley...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773559213
• ISBN13: 9780773559219
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"