Aboriginal drama and theatre

Appleford, Robert, 1966- (Added Author).

Summary: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available. The series publishes the work of scholars and critics who have traced the coming-into-prominence of a vibrant theatrical community in English Canada.

Record details

ISBN: 9780887547928
ISBN: 0887547923
Physical Description: xv, 187 p. ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Toronto : Playwrights Canada Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Seeing the full frame / Rob Appleford (2005) -- On Native mythology / Tomson Highway (1987) -- Absorption, elimination, and the hybrid: Some impure questions of gender and culture in the trickster drama of Tomson Highway / Sheila Rabillard (1993) -- The theatre of orphans/Native languages on stage / Floyd Favel Starr (1993) -- Receiving Aboriginality: Tomson Highway and the crisis of cultural authenticity / Alan Filewood (1994) -- "Shine on us, grandmother moon": Coding in Canadian First Nations drama / Reid Gilbert (2004) -- Alive and well: Native theatre in Canada / Drew Hayden Taylor (1996) -- The artificial tree: Native performance culture research, 1991-1996 / Floyd Favel Starr (1997) -- Hybridity and mimicry in the plays of Drew Hayden Taylor / Robert Nunn (1998) -- Selling myself: The value of an artist / Yvette Nolan (1999) -- Translators, traitors, mistresses, and whores: Monique Mojica and the mothers of the Métis nations / Ric Knowles (2001) -- The beginning of Cree performance culture / Geraldine Manossa (2001) -- A handful of plays by Native earthlings / Daniel David Moses (2001, 2002) -- Daniel David Moses: Ghostwriter with a vengeance / Rob Appleford (2005) -- A windigo tale: Contemporizing and mythologizing the residential school experience / Armand Garnet Ruffo (2005) -- Suggested further reading -- Notes on contributors.