Birgit Däwes is Professor of American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany. She is the author of Native North American Theater in a Global Age: Sites of Identity Construction and Transdifference and Ground Zero Fiction: History, Memory, and Representation in the American 9/11 Novel.
Acknowledgments
Performing Memory, Transforming Time: History and Indigenous North American Drama
Birgit Däwes
Part I. Indigenous North American Performance: Surveys and Methodologies
1. A Short History of Native Canadian Theatre
Henning Schäfer
2. Native American Drama: A Historical Survey
Ann Haugo
3. Burning Texts: Indigenous Dramaturgy on the Continent of Life
Tamara Underiner
Part II. Individual Hi/stories: Visions, Practice, Experience
4. Coyote Transforming: Visions of Native American Theatre
Rolland Meinholtz
5. From SALVAGE to Selvage: The Restoration of What Is Left
Diane Glancy
6. "Shakes Spear" Isn't an Indian Name?
Daniel David Moses
7. Theatre: Younger Brother of Tradition
Floyd Favel
8. Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way
Monique Mojica
9. "I don't write Native stories, I write universal stories": An Interview with Tomson Highway
Birgit Däwes
Part III. Representations of History: Critical Perspectives
10. Voices of Cultural Memory: Enacting History in Recent Native Canadian Drama
Marc Maufort
11. "If you remember me...": Memory and Remembrance in Monique Mojica's Birdwoman and the Suffragettes
Günter Beck
12. Translating Ab-Originality: Canadian Aboriginal Dramatic Texts in the Context of Central European Theatre
Klára Kolinská
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