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Staging the Ambiguities of Race: Polymorphous Indigenous Dramaturgies in Canada

par Maufort, Marc
Editeur scientifique Morosetti, Tiziana;Okagbue, Osita
Référence The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race, Palgrave, Cham, page (81-99)
Publication Publié, 2021-04-21

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Understanding race as culturally constructed, this chapter examines the ambiguities of the representations of the Indigenous “other” in recent Canadian First Nations playwriting. The artists considered here transcend any form of binary opposition between Indigenous and white identity formations, preferring to focus on their enmeshment. Tomson Highway’s The (Post)Mistress, Drew Hayden Taylor’s God and the Indian, Marie Clements’s Tombs of the Vanishing Indian, and Yvette Nolan’s The Unplugging offer fluid dramatizations of Indigeneity in its complex entanglements with white constituencies. This echoes Édouard Glissant’s concept of “creolization, " a constant process of transformation and exchange. Aesthetically, these plays transcend the classic “trickster” template of early Indigenous dramaturgies, illustrated through the Nanabush figure in Highway’s seminal play, The Rez Sisters.