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Native American performance and representation

Title
Native American performance and representation / S.E. Wilmer, editor.
Publication
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2009.
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Wilmer, S. E.
Description
vi, 286 p. : ill.; 24 cm
Subject
  • 1900 - 1999
  • American drama > Indian authors > History and criticism
  • American drama > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Canadian drama > Indian authors > 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
  • American drama
  • American drama > Indian authors
  • Canadian drama
  • Canadian drama > Indian authors
  • Indian dance
  • Indian theater
  • Indians
  • Literature
  • Motion pictures
  • North America
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
*MGS (Indian-American) 14-5372
ISBN
  • 9780816526468 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 081652646X (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008055274
OCLC
295046340
Title
Native American performance and representation / S.E. Wilmer, editor.
Imprint
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2009.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Chronological Term
1900 - 1999
Added Author
Wilmer, S. E.
Research Call Number
*MGS (Indian-American) 14-5372
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