Indigenous North American drama : a multivocal history / / edited by Birgit Däwes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811206503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany : , : State University of New York (SUNY) Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 9781438446622; 1438446624; 9781461919452; 1461919452; 9781438446615; 9781438446608; 1-4384-4661-6; 1-4384-4660-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 234 pages)
• Collana: SUNY series, native traces
• Disciplina: 812.009/897
• Soggetti: 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; Collective memory in literature; Indian theater - Canada - History - 20th century; Indian theater - Canada - History - 21st century; Indian theater - United States - History - 20th century; Indian theater - United States - History - 21st century; Indians in literature; Indians of North America - Intellectual life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index.; Description based upon online resource (viewed 2 March 2023), ; publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
• Nota di contenuto: Performing memory, transforming time: history and indigenous North American drama / Birgit Däwes -- ; Part I. 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 -- ; Part II. 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 -- ; Part III. 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Traces the historical dimensions of Native North American drama using a critical perspective.