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Performing worlds into being : Native American women's theater / edited by Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, Kelli Lyon Johnson, and William A. Wortman

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Author:
Armstrong, Ann Elizabeth  Search this
Johnson, Kelli Lyon 1969-  Search this
Wortman, William A. 1940-  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 193 p. : ill ; 24 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Type:
Drama
Date:
2009
C2009
Contents:
Introduction / Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, Kelli Lyon Johnson and William A. Wortman -- Sect. I. Looking Back, Looking Forward -- Creation Story Begins Again: Performing Transformation, Bridging Cosmologies / Monique Mojica and Ric Knowles -- Blind Faith Remembers...This Ain't No Love Story, This Ain't No Masque: Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots as Transformative Ritual for the Grandmothers, the Ones Who Remain, and for the Ones Who Are Yet to Come / Jill Carter -- Dancing with Tradition: Two Generations of Quileute Dancers in Preservation of the Culture's "Spirit Power": An Interview with Rochelle Warner and Bonita Cleveland, Members of the Quileute Tribe / Vessela Warner -- Sect. II. Honoring Spiderwoman Theater -- Persistence of Memory / Spiderwoman Theater -- Lousy Woman / Marie Annharte Baker -- What's an Indian Woman to Do / Marcie Rendon -- Persistent Memories: An Interview with Spiderwornan Theater / Ann Haugo -- Spiderwoman Theater's Legacy / Murielle Borst -- Sect. III. Voices -- Weaving the Rain: A New Play (excerpts) / Dianne Yeahquo Reyner -- Friends / Marcie Rendon -- Cannibal Woman Camp Out / Marie Annharte Baker -- Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way / Monique Mojica -- Pushing the Bear: A Script about the 1838-39 Cherokee nail of Tears / Diane Glancy -- Sect. IV. Community and Collaboration -- Theatre in the House/Raving Native Productions / Marcie Rendon -- Thunder Road Theater and Communiry-Based Native American Theater: An Interview with Julie Pearson-Little Thunder and Jana Rhoads / Vincent Scott -- "Forceful yet transitory and fragile": An Interview with Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl / Ann Elizabeth Armstrong -- Native Drama in the Mainstream: A Case Study of the Te Ata World Premiere / JudyLee Oliva and Christy Stanlake
Topic:
American drama--Indian authors  Search this
American drama--Women authors  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_929087