{"product_id":"new-native-american-drama-jeffrey-huntsman-9780806116976","title":"New Native American Drama: Three Plays","description":"\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\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\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\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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hanay Geiogamah, Jeffrey Huntsman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0806116978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806116976\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.28h x 5.47w x 0.48d","brand":"Hanay Geiogamah","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43996831711487,"sku":"9780806116976","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_af41c2e7-34ae-48e0-81cf-8fabc6368600.jpg?v=1683343953","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/new-native-american-drama-jeffrey-huntsman-9780806116976","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}