Footpaths and Bridges
Voices from the Native American Women Playwrights Archive
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2008
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-11613-3 (ISBN)
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-11613-3 (ISBN)
Presents eleven dramatic works that celebrate the vitality and diversity of Native American women. This collection presents an array of plays by leading contemporary playwrights - including JudyLee Oliva, Diane Glancy, and Monique Mojica - in forms ranging from realism to dramatic poetry and from a children's story to a musical.
Footpaths and Bridges presents eleven unique dramatic works that celebrate the vitality and diversity of Native American women. The collection presents a wide array of plays by leading contemporary playwrights - including JudyLee Oliva, Diane Glancy, and Monique Mojica, among others - in forms ranging from realism to dramatic poetry, from a children's story to a musical, and from full-length plays to one-acts. Alongside contributions from these award-winning playwrights is critical commentary that broadens understanding of Native American women's theater practices and perspectives, highlighting the issues of heritage, identity, and changing lifestyles that the plays imaginatively tackle. The collection affords access to voices previously unheard - voices that reveal the possibilities for communicating the complexity and the diversity of the Native American experience.Whether for use in the theater or in the classroom, ""Footpaths and Bridges"" affords the artist, educator, and scholar access to voices previously unheard - voices that reveal the endless possibilities for communicating the past and the present, the personal and the political, and the stunning kaleidoscope of Native American life and art.
Footpaths and Bridges presents eleven unique dramatic works that celebrate the vitality and diversity of Native American women. The collection presents a wide array of plays by leading contemporary playwrights - including JudyLee Oliva, Diane Glancy, and Monique Mojica, among others - in forms ranging from realism to dramatic poetry, from a children's story to a musical, and from full-length plays to one-acts. Alongside contributions from these award-winning playwrights is critical commentary that broadens understanding of Native American women's theater practices and perspectives, highlighting the issues of heritage, identity, and changing lifestyles that the plays imaginatively tackle. The collection affords access to voices previously unheard - voices that reveal the possibilities for communicating the complexity and the diversity of the Native American experience.Whether for use in the theater or in the classroom, ""Footpaths and Bridges"" affords the artist, educator, and scholar access to voices previously unheard - voices that reveal the endless possibilities for communicating the past and the present, the personal and the political, and the stunning kaleidoscope of Native American life and art.
Shirley A. Huston-Findley is Assistant Professor of Theatre at The College of Wooster. Rebecca Howard is an Instructor of Women's Studies at Miami University.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.5.2008 |
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Verlagsort | Ann Arbor |
Sprache | englisch |
Gewicht | 562 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
ISBN-10 | 0-472-11613-4 / 0472116134 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-472-11613-3 / 9780472116133 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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