Native American performance and representation

Wilmer, S. E. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 081652646X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780816526468 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
vi, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt. I. Reframing Dance, Performance, and Traditional Stories for a Postmodern Era -- 1. Inventing Native Modern Dance: A Tough Trip through Paradise / Daystar / Rosalie Jones -- 2. Old Spirits in a New World: Pacific Northwest Performance: Identity, Authenticity, Theatricality / Sarah Bryant-Bertail -- 3. Owners of the Past: Readbacks or Tradition in Mi'kmaq Narratives / Anne-Christine Hornborg -- 4. Pocahontas Myth and Its Deconstruction in Monique Mojica's Play Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots / Maria Lyytinen -- Pt. II. Native Body in Performance -- 5. Stories from the Body: Blood Memory and Organic Texts / Monique Mojica -- 6. Acts of Transfer: The 1975 and 1976 Productions of Raven and Body Indian by Red Earth Performing Arts Company / Julie Pearson-Little Thunder -- 7. Embodiment as a Healing Process: Native American Women and Performance / Shelley Scott -- 8. Hearts of Its Women: Rape, (Residential Schools), and Re-membering / Ric Knowles --