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New Native American Drama Three Plays

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ISBN-10: 0806116978

ISBN-13: 9780806116976

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jeffrey Huntsman, Hanay Geiogamah

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This first collection of plays by an Indian playwright presents a spectrum of Indian life that ranges in time from the past to the present and on into the future. Body Indian,the earliest, most widely performed, and most highly acclaimed of Geiogamah's plays, deals with a problem of the present -Indian alcoholism. But the play is not so much about alcoholism as it is about the social and moral obligations that Indian people owe to one another. Foghorn,through the use of humor rather than bitterness, tries to exorcise the harmful stereotyping that often stands in the way of non-Indians' understanding of Indians, and even on occasion of Indians' own appreciation of themselves. In the play…    
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 5/15/1980
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 158
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.37" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Jeffrey Huntsman is Assistant Professor of English in Indiana University. He earned his Ph.D. degree at the University of Texas, Austin, and has taught Native American literature courses since 1970.

Hanay Geiogamah is a professor in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and has been a member of the Department of Theater faculty since 1991. From 2002 to 2009 he served as the director of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center. He is the founding artistic director of the acclaimed American Indian Dance Theatre, and since 1997 he has served as principal director of Project HOOP, the national Native American theater advocacy program that works with tribal communities to develop Native theater and performing arts curricula and programming. Professor Geiogamah's career in the theater began in 1972 with the founding of the Native American Theater Ensemble at La MaMa Experimental…