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Title:

Native American performance and representation / S.E. Wilmer, editor.

Publisher:

University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

vi, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American drama--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American drama--20th century--History and criticism.
Canadian drama--History and criticism.--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.

Other Authors:

Wilmer, S. E.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Reframing dance, performance, and traditional stories for a postmodern era. Inventing native modern dance: a tough trip through paradise / Daystar/Rosalie Jones -- Old spirits in a new world: Pacific Northwest performance: identity, authenticity, theatricality / Sarah Bryant-Bertail -- Owners of the past: readbacks or tradition in Mi'kmaq narratives / Anne-Christine Hornborg -- The Pocahontas myth and its deconstruction in Monique Mojica's play Princess Pocahontas and the blue spots / Maria Lyytinen -- The native body in performance. Stories from the body: blood memory and organic texts / Monique Mojica -- Acts of transfer: the 1975 and 1976 productions of Raven and Body Indian by Red Earth Performing Arts Company / Julie Pearson-Little Thunder -- Embodiment as a healing process: Native American women and performance / Shelley Scott -- The hearts of its women: rape, (residential schools), and re-membering / Ric Knowles -- Native representation in drama. "People with strong hearts": staging communitism in Hanay Geiogamah's plays, Body Indian and 49 / Jaye T. Darby -- Coming-of-age on the rez: William S. Yellow Robe's The independence of Eddie Rose as Native American bildungsdrama / David Krasner -- Feathers, flutes, and drums: images of the indigenous Americans in Chicano drama / Jorge Huerta -- Metamora's revenge / Bruce McConachie -- Challenging stereotypes through film. Performance and "trickster aesthetics" in the work of Mohawk filmmaker Shelley Niro / Kristin L. Dowell -- Speaking lives, filming lives: George Burdeau and Victor Masayesva / Annie Kirby-Singh.

ISBN:

081652646X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780816526468 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)295046340

LCCN:

2008055274

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)