Gathering from Within: Indigenous Nationhood and Tanya Lukin Linklater's Woman and Water

This dossier contribution focuses on Alutiiq performer Tanya Lukin Linklater's Woman and Water . It examines how the piece creates the opportunity for an experience of a way of being in the world, in intimate interconnection with one another, the land and other animals, and the experiences of t...

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Published in:Theatre Research International
Main Author: SHEA MURPHY, JACQUELINE
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2010
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883310000076
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0307883310000076
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Summary:This dossier contribution focuses on Alutiiq performer Tanya Lukin Linklater's Woman and Water . It examines how the piece creates the opportunity for an experience of a way of being in the world, in intimate interconnection with one another, the land and other animals, and the experiences of time that this intimacy compels, that differs from the models of affiliation presumed in understandings of ‘nation states’ generally referenced by contemporary academic discussions of nationalism and transnationalism.