Briefcase Warriors
Stories for the Stage
Seiten
2021
University of Oklahoma Press (Verlag)
978-0-8061-6913-2 (ISBN)
University of Oklahoma Press (Verlag)
978-0-8061-6913-2 (ISBN)
In this collection of six thought-provoking plays, E. Donald Two-Rivers presents an intricate and multifaceted view of contemporary American Indian urban life. Alternately sad, humorous, or discomfiting, these plays range from one-act vignettes accessible to young adults to extended portrayals of the seedier side of urban existence.
In Briefcase Warriors, a collection of six fast-paced, thought-provoking plays, E. Donald Two-Rivers presents an intricate and multifaceted view of contemporary American Indian urban life. Alternately sad, humorous, or discomfiting, these plays range from one-act vignettes accessible to young adults to extended portrayals of the seedier side of urban existence. Fast-talking and hard-living, the characters depicted by Two-Rivers struggle to survive the sometimes hostile environs of a society whose members think of them as a vanishing race.The plays included are: Winter Summit or the Bang-Bang Incident; Forked Tongues; Chili Corn; Coyote Sits in Judgment; Shattered Dream; and Old Indian Trick (An Old Urban Indian Story as Told by an Old Urban Indian Who May Have Lied).
In Briefcase Warriors, a collection of six fast-paced, thought-provoking plays, E. Donald Two-Rivers presents an intricate and multifaceted view of contemporary American Indian urban life. Alternately sad, humorous, or discomfiting, these plays range from one-act vignettes accessible to young adults to extended portrayals of the seedier side of urban existence. Fast-talking and hard-living, the characters depicted by Two-Rivers struggle to survive the sometimes hostile environs of a society whose members think of them as a vanishing race.The plays included are: Winter Summit or the Bang-Bang Incident; Forked Tongues; Chili Corn; Coyote Sits in Judgment; Shattered Dream; and Old Indian Trick (An Old Urban Indian Story as Told by an Old Urban Indian Who May Have Lied).
E. Donald Two-Rivers, of American (Chippewa) descent, is artistic director of the Red Path Theater Company in Chicago. He is the author of Survivor's Medicine: Short Stories (University of Oklahoma Press), winner of the 1999 American Book Award.
Erscheinungsdatum | 17.08.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series |
Verlagsort | Oklahoma |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 333 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8061-6913-3 / 0806169133 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8061-6913-2 / 9780806169132 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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