Indigenous North American drama
Subtitle: a multivocal history
By: edited by Birgit Däwes
Series: SUNY series, native traces
Publisher: State University of New York Press; SUNY Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781438446615
Subjects: Indian authors; Indians of North America; Intellectual life; History and criticism; American drama; Indian theater; History and  criticism; Collective memory in literature; Canadian drama; History; Indians in literature
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Performing memory, transforming time: history and indigenous North American drama / Birgit Däwes; title: Indigenous North American performance: surveys and methodologies; title: A short history of native Canadian theatre / Henning Schäfer; title: Native American drama: a historical survey / Ann Haugo; title: Burning texts: indigenous dramaturgy on the continent of life / Tamara Underiner; title: Individual hi/stories: visions, practice, experience. Coyote transforming: visions of Native American theatre / Rolland Meinholtz; title: From salvage to selvage: the restoration of what is left / Diane Glancy; title: "Shakes Spear" isn't an Indian name? / Daniel David Moses; title: Theatre: younger brother of tradition / Floyd Favel; title: Chocolate Woman dreams the Milky Way / Monique Mojica; title: "I don't write Native stories, I write universal stories": an interview with Tomson Highway / Birgit Däwes; title: Representations of history: critical perspectives. Voices of cultural memory: enacting history in recent Native Canadian drama / Marc Maufort; title: "If you remember me" in Monique Mojica's Birdwoman and the Suffragettes / Günter Beck; title: Translating ab-originality: Canadian aboriginal dramatic texts in the context of Central European theatre / Klára Kolinská.