THTD 24800 - Native American Performance

Course Credit: 1
(FILM)
The performance traditions within Native American/First Nation cultures are extremely rich and diverse, embracing ritual, myth, spirituality, oral literature, art, music, dance and more recently, improvised and written scripts, film, and digital media forms such as video, podcasts, contemporary music, graphic novels and websites. Given our position as outsiders, how do we discuss this body of work? These discussions may be difficult and uncomfortable. How do we foreground our discussion in the context of over 500 years of colonialism, loss, and absence? Are there things we cannot know or discuss? [AH, C]