{"product_id":"new-native-american-drama-three-plays-revised","title":"New Native American Drama: Three Plays (Revised)","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Native American Drama: Three Plays (Revised)\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eHanay Geiogamah\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0806116978\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eOUP\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eRevised ed.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e158\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBody Indian, \u003c\/em\u003ethe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFoghorn, \u003c\/em\u003ethrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the play \u003cem\u003e49\u003c\/em\u003e the author links the past with the present and points a road to the future. Here the approach is synchronic rather than diachronic. The value of Indian traditions is emphasized -but only where those traditions are used imaginatively and not treated as ossified relics to be blindly venerated. \u003cem\u003e49\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates the continuity of Indian life in the vigor of new forms and with an abiding optimism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of plays-all widely performed and seriously and extensively reviewed-adds a new and important voice to the small body of Indian authors who write about their own people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"OUP","offers":[{"title":"New Native American Drama: Three Plays (Revised) | Hanay Geiogamah | Paperback | 0806116978 | Used: Like New | Drama 1721507","offer_id":50723041181954,"sku":"1721507","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/51onUgNZm9L.jpg?v=1791843960","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/new-native-american-drama-three-plays-revised","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}