Encounters on Contested Lands : : First Nations Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Quebec

• Main Author: Burelle, Julie Sara Véronique
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2014
• Subjects: Dissertations; Academic Drama and theatre. (Discipline) UCSD; Indians of North America Ethnic identity Drama Québec (Province); Indians of North America Rites and ceremonies Political aspects Drama Québec (Province); Indians of North America Land tenure Québec (Province); Indians of North America Government relations Québec (Province); Indians of North America Politics and government Québec (Province); Self-determination; National History Québec (Province); Decolonization History Québec (Province); Canada; Tuck; First Nations
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1pr910r7; http://n2t.net/ark:/20775/bb5155154k

Public spectacles, as many scholars argue, perform, shape and solidify a given nation's imagined community, celebrating its perceived commonality, while obscuring elements that might threaten its cohesiveness. For settler communities that are predicated on the erasure of indigeneity and its rep...