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Zusatztext This volume is the newest, and in many ways, most impressive, achievement in the scholarly field of American Indian theatre critical studies and research. The overall approach the authors have taken, one that emphasizes Native critical and dramaturgical frameworks rather than the western notions of theatre and performance that have long been imposed on scholarly readings of Native theatre, enlarges and, in my view, enriches the body of scholarship available for use by college students, academics, theatre artists and tribal educators and community builders. Informationen zum Autor Jaye T. Darby is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She has published widely in Native theatre and transformative studies. With Geiogamah, she co-edited American Indian Performing Arts: Critical Directions and two other volumes on Native performance. She is also co-editor of the collection Keepers of the Morning Star: An Anthology of Native Women's Theater with Stephanie Fitzgerald. Courtney Elkin Mohler is an Assistant Professor of Theatre in the Jordan College of the Arts at Butler University in Indianapolis, USA. She has published articles on Native American performance, Critical Race Theory and Theatre for Social Justice in Theatre Topics , Modern Drama , Text & Presentation , Platform and has contributed a chapter to American Indian Performing Arts: Critical Directions (2009). Christy Stanlake is a Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy, USA. A proponent of theatrical praxis, she has worked as both a scholar and practitioner in Native American Theater, including publishing Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective (2009) and directing the national tour of JudyLee Oliva’s Te Ata in 2013. Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. is professor of theatre arts at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA, the author and editor of ten books including The Empire Triumphant: Race, Religion and Rebellion in the Star Wars Films , and a contributor to numerous volumes on sci-fi, pop culture and religion, including essays on Godzilla , Star Wars , and Battlestar Galactica . His areas of expertise include Japanese theatre, African theatre, Shakespeare, Greek tragedy, stage combat and comedy. He is co-editor with Patrick Lonergan of Bloomsbury Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series. Patrick Lonergan is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at University of Galway, Ireland. Vorwort The first survey book to critically engage with the major themes, artists, and plays of Native American and First Nations Theatre, with a special focus on the cultural and spiritual meanings, aesthetics, and political goals of the genre as it meets the changing needs of Native North American peoples. Zusammenfassung This foundational study offers an accessible introduction to Native American and First Nations theatre by drawing on critical Indigenous and dramaturgical frameworks. It is the first major survey book to introduce Native artists, plays, and theatres within their cultural, aesthetic, spiritual, and socio-political contexts. Native American and First Nations theatre weaves the spiritual and aesthetic traditions of Native cultures into diverse, dynamic, contemporary plays that enact Indigenous human rights through the plays' visionary styles of dramaturgy and performance. The book begins by introducing readers to historical and cultural contexts helpful for reading Native American and First Nations drama, followed by an overview of Indigenous plays and theatre artists from across the century. Finally, it points forward to the ways in which Native American and First Nations theatre artists are continuing to create works that advocate for human rights through transformative Native performance practices.Addressing the c...
