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Title Indigenous North American drama : a multivocal history / edited by Birgit Däwes
Published Albany : SUNY Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 234 pages)
Series SUNY series, Native traces
Native traces.
Contents Performing memory, transforming time: history and Indigenous North American drama / Birgit Däwes -- Indigenous North American performance: surveys and methodologies -- A short history of native Canadian theatre / Henning Schäfer -- Native American drama: a historical survey / Ann Haugo -- Burning texts: Indigenous dramaturgy on the continent of life / Tamara Underiner -- Individual hi/stories: visions, practice, experience. Coyote transforming: visions of Native American theatre / Rolland Meinholtz -- From salvage to selvage: the restoration of what is left / Diane Glancy -- "Shakes Spear" isn't an Indian name? / Daniel David Moses -- Theatre: younger brother of tradition / Floyd Favel -- Chocolate Woman dreams the Milky Way / Monique Mojica -- "I don't write Native stories, I write universal stories": an interview with Tomson Highway / Birgit Däwes -- Representations of history: critical perspectives. Voices of cultural memory: enacting history in recent Native Canadian drama / Marc Maufort -- "If you remember me" in Monique Mojica's Birdwoman and the Suffragettes / Günter Beck -- Translating ab-originality: Canadian aboriginal dramatic texts in the context of Central European theatre / Klára Kolinská
Summary Responding to an increasing need for critical perspectives and methodologies, this collection traces the historical dimensions of Native North American drama through overviews of major developments, individual playwrights' perspectives, and in-depth critical analyses. Bringing together writers and scholars from the United States, Canada, and Europe, Indigenous North American Drama provides the first comprehensive outline of this vibrant genre. It also acknowledges the wide diversity of styles and perspectives that have helped shape contemporary Native North American theater itself. This interdisciplinary introduction offers a basis for new readings of Native American and First Nations literature at large
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject American drama -- Indian authors -- History and criticism
American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
American drama -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Canadian drama -- Indian authors -- History and criticism
Canadian drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Canadian drama -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Indian theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Indian theater -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Indian theater -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Indian theater -- Canada -- History -- 21st century
Indians of North America -- Intellectual life
Indians in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
DRAMA -- American.
American drama
American drama -- Indian authors
Canadian drama
Canadian drama -- Indian authors
Collective memory in literature
Indian theater
Indians in literature
Indians of North America -- Intellectual life
Canada
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Däwes, Birgit
LC no. 2012023546
ISBN 9781461919452
1461919452
9781438446622
1438446624