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

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Wilmer, S. E.

Conference Name:

American Indian Workshop (23rd : 2002 : Dublin, Ireland)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American drama--Indian authors--History and criticism.

American drama.

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

Canadian drama--Indian authors--History and criticism.

Canadian drama.

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

Indian dance--North America.

Indian dance.

Indian theater--United States--History--20th century.

Indian theater.

Indians in literature.

Indians in motion pictures.

Indians of North America--Intellectual life.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Native performance is a multifaceted and changing art form as well as a swiftly growing field of research. Native American Performance and Representation provides a wider and more comprehensive study of Native performance, not only its past but also its present and future. Contributors use multiple perspectives to look at the varying nature of Native performance strategies. They consider the combination and balance of the traditional and modern techniques of performers in a multicultural world. This collection presents diverse viewpoints from both scholars and performers in this field, both Natives and non-Natives. Important and well-respected researchers and performers such as Bruce McConachie, Jorge Huerta, and Daystar/Rosalie Jones offer much-needed insight into this quickly expanding field of study. This volume examines Native performance using a variety of lenses, such as feminism, literary and film theory, and postcolonial discourse. Through the many unique voices of the contributors, major themes are explored, such as indigenous self-representations in performance, representations by nonindigenous people, cultural authenticity in performance and representation, and cross-fertilization between cultures. Authors introduce important, though sometimes controversial, issues as they consider the effects of miscegenation on traditional customs, racial discrimination, Native women’s position in a multicultural society, and the relationship between authenticity and hybridity in Native performance. An important addition to the new and growing field of Native performance, Wilmer’s book cuts across disciplines and areas of study in a way no other book in the field does. It will appeal not only to those interested in Native American studies but also to those concerned with women’s and gender studies, literary and film studies, and cultural studies.

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.

Notes:

Originally published in hardcover: c2009.

"This book evolved out of a meeting of the 23rd American Indian Workshop on the theme of 'Ritual and Performance' ... at Trinity College Dublin in March 2002"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-299-19181-9

0-8165-0274-9

OCLC:

802057326