Native American performance and representation
By: S. E. Wilmer, editor.
Contributors: Wilmer, S. E.
Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816526468
Subjects: American drama -- Indian authors -- History and criticism; American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Canadian drama -- Indian authors -- History and criticism; Canadian drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Indian theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Indian dance -- North America; Indians of North America -- Intellectual life; Indians in literature; Indians in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reframing dance, performance, and traditional stories for a postmodern era. Inventing native modern dance: a tough trip through paradise / Daystar/Rosalie Jones; title: Old spirits in a new world: Pacific Northwest performance: identity, authenticity, theatricality / Sarah Bryant-Bertail; title: Owners of the past: readbacks or tradition in Mi'kmaq narratives / Anne-Christine Hornborg; title: The Pocahontas myth and its deconstruction in Monique Mojica's play, Princess Pocahontas and the blue spots / Maria Lyytinen; title: The native body in performance. Stories from the body: blood memory and organic texts / Monique Mojica; title: Acts of transfer: the 1975 and 1976 productions of Raven and Body Indian by Red Earth Performing Arts Company / Julie Pearson-Little Thunder; title: Embodiment as a healing process: Native American women and performance / Shelley Scott; title: The hearts of its women: rape, (residential schools), and re-membering / Ric Knowles; title: Native representation in drama. "People with strong hearts": Staging communitism in Hanay Geiogamah's plays, Body Indian and 49 / Jaye T. Darby; title: Coming-of-age on the rez: William S. Yellow Robe's The independence of Eddie Rose as Native American bildungsdrama / David Krasner; title: Feathers, flutes, and drums: images of the indigenous Americans in Chicano drama / Jorge Huerta; title: Metamora's revenge / Bruce McConachie; title: Challenging stereotypes through film. Performance and "trickster aesthetics" in the work of Mohawk filmmaker  Shelley Niro / Kristin L. Dowell; title: Speaking lives, filming lives: George Burdeau and Victor Masayesva / Annie Kirby-Singh.