Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre and Performance

Jaye T. Darby is Lecturer in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Courtney Elkin Mohler is Assistant Professor of Theatre in the Jordan College of the Arts at Butler University in Indianapolis, USA. Christy Stanlake is Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, USA.

• List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements Part One: Setting the Stage1. The Circle of Indigenous Spaces 2. Incursions into Performance Cultures Part Two: Reclaiming the Stage3. Culture Bearers: The Grandmothers of Native Theatre and Performance 4. Homeland Yearnings Across Settings Part Three: Revolutionizing the Stage5. Activating the Stage 6. Advancing the Stage 7. The Heart of the Matter: Indigenous Performance and Community Part Four: Transforming the Stage8. Transforming Production Process 9. Being and Becoming 10. Expanding the Circle with Future Generations Bibliography NotesIndex

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.