Footpaths & Bridges: Voices from the Native American Women Playwrights Archive - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0472034782 ISBN 13: 9780472034789

Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2011

Riassunto

Footpaths and Bridges celebrates the vitality and diversity of Native American women, collecting plays ranging from ETHNOSTRESS—a humorous take on art and identity politics—to the biographical musical Te Ata to a retelling of the Thanksgiving story from the Wampanoag perspective. The dramatic works are accompanied by critical commentary that illuminates Native American women’s theater practices and perspectives, highlighting the issues of heritage, identity, and changing lifestyles that the plays imaginatively tackle.

Featuring work from a wide array of tribes and geographic regions, the collection affords the artist, scholar, and general reader access to previously unheard voices that communicate the complexity and the diversity of the Native American experience. The far-ranging genres and content of the plays suggest the many possibilities for communicating the past and the present, the personal and the political, and the stunning kaleidoscope of Native American life and art.

“Often thoughtful provocateurs, Native American playwrights are frequently overlooked . . . eminently readable, and possibly performable, the plays [in this collection] examine colonization, generational differences, ‘ethnostress,’ and cultural identity.”
—Choice

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Shirley A. Huston-Findley is Associate Professor of Theater at the College of Wooster.

Rebecca Howard is Instructor of Women’s Studies at Miami University.

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0472034782
• ISBN 13: 9780472034789
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 291
• Redattore: Huston-findley Shirley A., Howard Rebecca