Birgit Däwes 
Indigenous North American Drama [EPUB ebook] 
A Multivocal History

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments



Performing Memory, Transforming Time: History and Indigenous North American Drama


Birgit Däwes




Part I. Indigenous North American Performance: Surveys and Methodologies



1. A Short History of Native Canadian Theatre


Henning Sch
äfer



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 Däwes




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


Günter Beck



12. Translating Ab-Originality: Canadian Aboriginal Dramatic Texts in the Context of Central European Theatre


Klára Kolinská



Works Cited

Contributors

Index

O autorze

Birgit Däwes 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.