Alternate Title(s)

Critical perspectives on Canadian theatre in English

ISBN

0887547923; 9780887547928

Statement of Responsibility

edited by Rob Appleford.

Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

Toronto : Playwrights Canada Press

Physical Description

xv, 187 p. 23 cm.

Contents

Introduction: seeing the full frame / Rob Appleford -- On Native mythology / Tomson Highway -- Absorption, elimination, and the hybrid: some impure questions about gender and culture in the trickster drama of Tomson Highway / Sheila Rabillard -- The theatre of orphans/ Native languages on stage / Floyd Favel Starr -- Receiving Aboriginality: Tomson Highway and the crisis of cultural authenticity / Alan Filewod -- "Shine on us, Grandmother Moon": coding in Canadian First Nations drama / Reid Gilbert -- Alive and well: Native theatre in Canada / Drew Hayden Taylor -- The artificial tree: Native performance culture research, 1991-1996 / Floyd Favel Starr -- Hybridity and mimicry in the plays of Drew Hayden Taylor / Robert Nunn -- Selling myself: the value of an artist / Yvette Nolan -- Translators, traitors, mistresses, and whores: Monique Mojica and the mothers of the Métis Nations / Ric Knowles -- The beginning of Cree performance culture / Geraldine Manossa -- A handful of plays by Native earthlings / Daniel David Moses -- Daniel David Moses: ghostwriter with a vengeance / Rob Appleford -- A Windigo tale: contemporizing the residential school experience / Armand Garnet Ruffo -- Suggested further reading.