Chocolate Woman Dreams The Milky Way

Author : Monique Mojica,Brenda Farnell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472056217

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Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way by Monique Mojica,Brenda Farnell Pdf

This volume documents the creation of Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way, a play written and performed by Monique Mojica with collaborators from diverse disciplines. Inspired by the pictographic writing and mola textiles of the Guna, an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia, the book explores Mojica's unique approach to the performance process. Her method activates an Indigenous theatrical process that privileges the body in contrast to Western theater's privileging of the written text, and rethinks the role of land, body, and movement, as well as dramatic story-structure and performance style. Co-authored with anthropologist Brenda Farnell, the book challenges the divide between artist and scholar, and addresses the many levels of cultural, disciplinary, and linguistic translations required to achieve this. Placing the complex intellect inherent to Indigenous Knowledges at its center, the book engages Indigenous performance theory, and concepts that link body, land, and story, such as terra nullius/corpus nullius, mapping, pattern literacy, land literacy, and movement literacy. Enhanced by contributions from other artists and scholars, the book challenges Eurocentric ideologies about what counts as "performance" and what is required from an "audience," as well as long-standing body-mind dualisms.

Author : Birgit Däwes
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438446615

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Indigenous North American Drama by Birgit Däwes Pdf

Traces the historical dimensions of Native North American drama using a critical perspective.

Author : Ricia A. Chansky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317337195

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Auto/Biography across the Americas by Ricia A. Chansky Pdf

Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This collection proposes that the impact of the historic or contemporary movement of peoples to, in, and from the Americas—whether chosen or forced—motivates the ways in which identities are constructed in this contested space. Such movement results in a cyclical quest to belong, and to understand belonging, that reverberates through narratives of the Americas. The volume brings together essays written from diverse national, cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary perspectives to trace these transnational motifs in life writing across the Americas. Drawing on international scholars from the seemingly disparate regions of the Americas—North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America—this book extends critical theories of life writing beyond limiting national boundaries. The scholarship included approaches narrative inquiry from the fields of literature, linguistics, history, art history, sociology, anthropology, political science, pedagogy, gender studies, critical race studies, and indigenous studies. As a whole, this volume advances discourse in auto/biography studies, life writing, and identity studies by locating transnational themes in narratives of the Americas and placing them in international and interdisciplinary conversations.

Author : Ric Knowles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137442284

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How Theatre Means by Ric Knowles Pdf

In this wide-ranging study, Ric Knowles demonstrates how the examination and practice of theatre is enhanced by an expanded semiotic approach. Moving from the history and theory of performance analysis to its practical application and paying particular attention to cross-cultural applications, he examines not what a particular piece of theatre means, but how meaning is produced in the process of creating, viewing and analysing theatre. How Theatre Means presents contemporary case studies and explores intersections between a wide range of theories and methods. Clear and accessible, this book brings a key analytical methodology to life for students, practitioners and scholars.

Author : Jennifer Gomez Menjivar,Gloria Elizabeth Chacón
Publisher : Critical Issues in Indigenous
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816538003

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Indigenous Interfaces by Jennifer Gomez Menjivar,Gloria Elizabeth Chacón Pdf

"This book explores how Indigenous people in Mesoamerica use social networks to alter, enhance, preserve, and contribute to self-representation"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Ric Knowles
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472053605

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Performing the Intercultural City by Ric Knowles Pdf

"Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto--a representative global city in the first country in the world to adopt a policy of official multiculturalism--stages its diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. By examining the ways in which Indigenous, Filipino, Latino/a and Afro-Caribbean Canadian theater in Toronto has developed play structures based on culturally specific forms of expression, Performing the Intercultural City analyzes the ways in which theater companies from a variety of marginalized communities of color in Toronto have worked across cultural difference to produce a new kind of intercultural performance"--

Author : Diana Brydon,Marta Dvořák
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554583096

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Crosstalk by Diana Brydon,Marta Dvořák Pdf

What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagements with the global? What frictions emerge from these encounters? In negotiating aesthetic and political approaches to Canadian cultural production within contexts of global circulation, this collection argues for the value of attending to narratorial, lyric, and theatrical conventions in dialogue with questions of epistemological and social justice. Using the twinned framing devices of crosstalk and cross-sighting, the contributing authors attend to how the interplay of the verbal and the visual maps public spheres of creative engagement today. Individual chapters present a range of methodological approaches to understanding national culture and creative labour in global contexts. Through their collective enactment of methodological crosstalk, they demonstrate the productivity of scholarly debate across differences of outlook, culture, and training. In highlighting convergences and disagreements, the book sharpens our understanding of how literary and critical conventions and theories operate within and across cultures.

Author : R. Rivera-Servera,H. Young
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230294554

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Performance in the Borderlands by R. Rivera-Servera,H. Young Pdf

A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean.

Author : Shelley Scott
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781897425558

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Nightwood Theatre by Shelley Scott Pdf

Nightwood Theatre is the longest-running and most influential feminist theatre company in Canada. Since 1979, the company has produced works by Canadian women, providing new opportunities for women theatre artists. It has also been the "home company" for some of the biggest names in Canadian theatre, such as Ann-Marie MacDonald. In Nightwood Theatre, Scott describes the company?s journey toward defining itself as a feminist theatre establishment, highlighting its artistic leadership based on its relevance to diverse communities of women. She also traces Nightwood?s relationship with the media and places the theatre in an international context by comparing its history to that of like companies in the U.K. and the U.S

Author : Sarah MacKenzie
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773634319

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Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada by Sarah MacKenzie Pdf

Despite a recent increase in the productivity and popularity of Indigenous playwrights in Canada, most critical and academic attention has been devoted to the work of male dramatists, leaving female writers on the margins. In Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada, Sarah MacKenzie addresses this critical gap by focusing on plays by Indigenous women written and produced in the socio-cultural milieux of twentieth and twenty-first century Canada. Closely analyzing dramatic texts by Monique Mojica, Marie Clements, and Yvette Nolan, MacKenzie explores representations of gendered colonialist violence in order to determine the varying ways in which these representations are employed subversively and informatively by Indigenous women. These plays provide an avenue for individual and potential cultural healing by deconstructing some of the harmful ideological work performed by colonial misrepresentations of Indigeneity and demonstrate the strength and persistence of Indigenous women, offering a space in which decolonial futurisms can be envisioned. In this unique work, MacKenzie suggests that colonialist misrepresentations of Indigenous women have served to perpetuate demeaning stereotypes, justifying devaluation of and violence against Indigenous women. Most significantly, however, she argues that resistant representations in Indigenous women’s dramatic writing and production work in direct opposition to such representational and manifest violence.

Author : Liza-Mare Syron
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030823757

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Rehearsal Practices of Indigenous Women Theatre Makers by Liza-Mare Syron Pdf

This transnational and transcultural study intimately investigates the theatre making practices of Indigenous women playwrights from Australia, Aotearoa, and Turtle Island. It offers a new perspective in Performance Studies employing an Indigenous standpoint, specifically an Indigenous woman’s standpoint to privilege the practices and knowledges of Maori, First Nations, and Aboriginal women playwrights. Written in the style of ethnographic narrative the author affords the reader a ringside seat in providing personal insights on the process of negotiating access to rehearsals in each specific cultural context, detailed descriptions of each rehearsal location, and describing the visceral experiences of observing Indigenous theatre makers from inside the rehearsal room. The Indigenous scholar and theatre maker draws on Rehearsal Studies as an approach to documenting the day-to-day working practices of Indigenous theatre makers and considers an Indigenous Standpoint as a valid framework for investigating contemporary Indigenous theatre practices in a colonised context.

Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107159624

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The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature by Eva-Marie Kröller Pdf

A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

Author : S. E. Wilmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124131405

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Native American Performance and Representation by S. E. Wilmer Pdf

Native performance is a multifaceted and changing art form as well as a swiftly growing field of research. Native American Performance and Representation provides a wider and more comprehensive study of Native performance, not only its past but also its present and future. Contributors use multiple perspectives to look at the varying nature of Native performance strategies. They consider the combination and balance of the traditional and modern techniques of performers in a multicultural world. This collection presents diverse viewpoints from both scholars and performers in this field, both Natives and non-Natives. Important and well-respected researchers and performers such as Bruce McConachie, Jorge Huerta, and Daystar/Rosalie Jones offer much-needed insight into this quickly expanding field of study. This volume examines Native performance using a variety of lenses, such as feminism, literary and film theory, and postcolonial discourse. Through the many unique voices of the contributors, major themes are explored, such as indigenous self-representations in performance, representations by nonindigenous people, cultural authenticity in performance and representation, and cross-fertilization between cultures. Authors introduce important, though sometimes controversial, issues as they consider the effects of miscegenation on traditional customs, racial discrimination, Native women’s position in a multicultural society, and the relationship between authenticity and hybridity in Native performance. An important addition to the new and growing field of Native performance, Wilmer’s book cuts across disciplines and areas of study in a way no other book in the field does. It will appeal not only to those interested in Native American studies but also to those concerned with women’s and gender studies, literary and film studies, and cultural studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Drama
ISBN : IND:30000159795024

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Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Birgit Däwes
Publisher : P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCSD:31822038998803

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Enacting Nature by Birgit Däwes Pdf

This volume explores the multi-faceted semantics of ecology in contemporary Indigenous theater and performance. It focuses on the ways in which Indigenous playwrights from North America and Oceania depict the human link with Nature in today's global age.