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Traces the historical dimensions of Native North American drama using a critical perspective.

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Author:   Birgit Däwes
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.345kg
ISBN:  

9781438446608

ISBN 10:   1438446608
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   02 January 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Performing Memory, Transforming Time: History and Indigenous North American Drama Birgit Dawes Part I. Indigenous North American Performance: Surveys and Methodologies 1. A Short History of Native Canadian Theatre Henning Schafer 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 Dawes 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 Gunter Beck 12. Translating Ab-Originality: Canadian Aboriginal Dramatic Texts in the Context of Central European Theatre Klara Kolinska Works Cited Contributors Index

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This collection of essays is an excellent resource for all scholars in the field Highly recommended. CHOICE

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Birgit Dawes 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.

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