ISBN:
081652646X
,
9780816526468
Language:
English
Pages:
[VII], 286 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
DDC:
791.089/97
Keywords:
American drama Indian authors
;
History and criticism
;
American drama History and criticism 20th century
;
Canadian drama Indian authors
;
History and criticism
;
Canadian drama History and criticism 20th century
;
Indian theater History 20th century
;
Indian dance
;
Indians of North America Intellectual life
;
Indians in literature
;
Indians in motion pictures
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
USA
;
Indianer
;
Drama
;
Film
;
Tanz
;
USA
;
Drama
;
Film
;
Tanz
;
Indianer
Description / Table of Contents:
Reframing dance, performance, and traditional stories for a postmodern era. Inventing native modern dance: a tough trip through paradise / Daystar/Rosalie JonesOld 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Reframing dance, performance, and traditional stories for a postmodern era. Inventing native modern dance: a tough trip through paradise
,
Old spirits in a new world: Pacific Northwest performance: identity, authenticity, theatricality
,
Owners of the past: readbacks or tradition in Mi'kmaq narratives
,
The Pocahontas myth and its deconstruction in Monique Mojica's play Princess Pocahontas and the blue spots
,
The native body in performance. Stories from the body: blood memory and organic texts
,
Acts of transfer: the 1975 and 1976 productions of Raven and Body Indian by Red Earth Performing Arts Company
,
Embodiment as a healing process: Native American women and performance
,
The hearts of its women: rape, (residential schools), and re-membering
,
Native representation in drama. "People with strong hearts": staging communitism in Hanay Geiogamah's plays, Body Indian and 49
,
Coming-of-age on the rez: William S. Yellow Robe's The independence of Eddie Rose as Native American bildungsdrama
,
Feathers, flutes, and drums: images of the indigenous Americans in Chicano drama
,
Metamora's revenge
,
Challenging stereotypes through film. Performance and "trickster aesthetics" in the work of Mohawk filmmaker Shelley Niro
,
Speaking lives, filming lives: George Burdeau and Victor Masayesva
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