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Indigenous North American Drama: A Multivocal History
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.
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Indigenous North American Drama: A Multivocal History
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.
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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781438446622
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 12/29/2012
Series: SUNY series, Native Traces
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 244
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Birgit Däwes is Professor of American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany. She is the author of Native North American Theater in a Global Age: Sites of Identity Construction and Transdifference and Ground Zero Fiction: History, Memory, and Representation in the American 9/11 Novel.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Performing Memory, Transforming Time: History and Indigenous North American Drama
Birgit Däwes

Part I. Indigenous North American Performance: Surveys and Methodologies

1. A Short History of Native Canadian Theatre
Henning Schäfer

2. Native American Drama: A Historical Survey
Ann Haugo

3. Burning Texts: Indigenous Dramaturgy on the Continent of Life
Tamara Underiner

Part II. Individual Hi/stories: Visions, Practice, Experience

4. Coyote Transforming: Visions of Native American Theatre
Rolland Meinholtz

5. From SALVAGE to Selvage: The Restoration of What Is Left
Diane Glancy

6. “Shakes Spear” Isn’t an Indian Name?
Daniel David Moses

7. Theatre: Younger Brother of Tradition
Floyd Favel

8. Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way
Monique Mojica

9. “I don’t write Native stories, I write universal stories”: An Interview with Tomson Highway
Birgit Däwes

Part III. Representations of History: Critical Perspectives

10. Voices of Cultural Memory: Enacting History in Recent Native Canadian Drama
Marc Maufort

11. “If you remember me…”: Memory and Remembrance in Monique Mojica’s Birdwoman and the Suffragettes
Günter Beck

12. Translating Ab-Originality: Canadian Aboriginal Dramatic Texts in the Context of Central European Theatre
Klára Kolinská

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Contributors
Index
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