Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays
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Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Playsbundles 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 Riggs's 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1554815916
ISBN13:9781554815913
Release Date:April 2024
Publisher:Broadview Press Inc
Length:360 Pages
Weight:0.88 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"
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