Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays by Lynn Riggs Paperback Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays by Lynn Riggs, James H. Cox, Alexander Pettit, Daniel Heath Justice The only critical edition of Cherokee playwright Lynn Riggss plays on Indigenous themes. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays bundles critically edited texts of three thematically allied plays with an extensive primary, secondary, and textual apparatus. The Cherokee Night (1932), comprising seven asynchronous scenes set between 1895 and 1931, is Riggss most experimental play. Its Cherokee characters inhabit a history of dispossession and violence, including the dissolution of the Cherokee Nation with Oklahoma statehood in 1907. Their daily survival constitutes the apex of resistance. Not so for the Indigenes of The Year of Pilar (1938), the most radical American Indian text prior to the Native American renaissance that began in the late 1960s. Here, Yucatecan Mayans take a government program of land reform as an opportunity to reclaim their homeland and punish settler-colonialists for centuries of enslavement, torture, and sexual violence. Riggs returns to Indian Territory in The Cream in the Well (1941), set on the eve of Oklahoma statehood. The Cherokee Sawters family responds to the onset of statehood by lamenting lost opportunities and fretting about an uncertain future. Author Biography James H. Cox is Professor of English at the University at Texas at Austin and the author of, most recently, The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). Alexander Pettit is Professor of English at the University of North Texas and has published widely on modern drama and eighteenth-century literature. Table of Contents AcknowledgementsPreface by Daniel Heath JusticeIntroductionLynn Riggs: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextsThe Cherokee NightThe Year of PilarThe Cream in the WellAppendix A: Lynn Riggs on the Performing Arts1. "When People Say Folk Drama," Carolina Playbook (June 1931)2. "High, Wide, and Handsome" (review of Singing Cowboy), The Nation (16 December 1931)3. "Poetry—And Poetry in the Theatre" (16 November 1932)4. Letter to Paul Green ("Vine Theatre Letter") (5 March 1939)5. "Some Notes on the Theatre" (19 February 1940)6. "A Credo for the Tributary Theatre" (1940), Theatre Arts (February 1941)7. "What the Theatre Can Mean to All of Us" (27 March 1940)8. "We Speak for Ourselves: A Dance Poem," Theatre Arts (December 1943)9. "A Note on We Speak for Ourselves," Dance Observer (November 1943)Appendix B: Productions of Plays by Lynn RiggsTextual ApparatusWorks Cited and Select Bibliography Permissions AcknowledgementsIndex Review "Although these three plays give the reader an important perspective on Riggss dramaturgical voice, the contextual material in the edition is also invaluable to understanding the artist behind the work. Riggss essays and letters outline a dream for a new theater that speaks directly to the theater practitioners of today. As a contemporary Native American playwright, I found myself saying Yes! again and again as I read his vision for our field. As the next Native American playwright on Broadway (decades after Riggs), I am often compared to him, and my career is often measured by his. But in reading Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays, I felt truly connected to his passion for the power of theater for the first time." — Larissa FastHorse, author of The Thanksgiving Play"Lynn Riggs is a forgotten great—a Cherokee playwright whose 1930s plays on Indigenous themes are gloriously contained in this book. The edition starts with a great introduction to Riggs and his work; three plays, then a series of Riggss essays on process and on his ways as a playwright, follow. Thanks to the editorial team of James Cox and Alexander Pettit, I walked away feeling that I now know this man." — Alanis King, author of 3 Plays"An expansive framing of Lynn Riggs and his work, enlightening and exhilarating. The context provided in this edition allows the reader to see the complicated, multi-faceted human that Lynn Riggs was. Cherokee and gay, a playwright and a screenwriter, he was no one thing to the exclusion of another. There is something comforting, as an Indigenous playwright in the twenty-first century, about knowing Lynn Riggs, his history, and his contributions to not just Indigenous theatre, but to Theatre. This edition helps the reader to recognize Riggss place in Theatres continuum." — Yvette Nolan, playwright and director Details ISBN1554815916 Author Daniel Heath Justice Pages 360 Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781554815913 Format Paperback Edited by James H. Cox Publisher Broadview Press Ltd Imprint Broadview Press Ltd Subtitle The Indigenous Plays Place of Publication Peterborough Publication Date 2024-04-12 Country of Publication United States Illustrations 2 Illustrations, black and white Audience Tertiary & Higher Education US Release Date 2024-04-12 ISBN-10 1554815916 UK Release Date 2024-04-12 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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