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Indigenous women's theatre in Canada : a mechanism of decolonization

Indigenous women's theatre in Canada : a mechanism of decolonization

Book 2020

"Despite a recent increase in productivity amongst Indigenous playwrights in Canada, most critical and academic attention has been devoted to the work of male dramatists. This is seemingly due to the expediency with which such renowned writers/dramatists as Cree playwright Tomson Highway and Ojibwa writer Drew Hayden Taylor achieved fame. Grounded in a historical, socio-cultural consideration of Indigenous women's theatrical production and recept...