{"id":369,"date":"2021-12-08T22:57:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T03:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/?page_id=369"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:02:44","slug":"performing-worlds-into-being","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/miami-university-nonfiction\/performing-worlds-into-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Performing Worlds into Being"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ann Elizabeth Armstrong<\/strong>, Kelli Lyon Johnson<\/strong> , & William A. Wortman<\/strong>

2009. 978-1-4243-3112-3 | 1-4243-3112-9
$29.99 Bookshop<\/a> | Amazon<\/a> | Pathway<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n


Based on the rich results of a 2007 conference at Miami University, this volume brings together some of the most prominent voices in Native North American theater. Subdivided into four thematic sections, it skillfully combines plays, interviews, surveys, critical analyses, poetic responses and essays into a truly communal approach to contemporary indigenous performance. Artists such as Spiderwoman Theater, Monique Mojica, and JudyLee Oliva enter into dialogues with some of the most prominent critics of Native theater, including Ric Knowles, Ann Haugo and Christy Stanlake. In line with the Native American Women Playwrights Archive\u2019s mission \u201cto collect, preserve, and make more widely known the work of living Native American women playwrights, with \u2018American\u2019 including Canada, Mexico, Central and Caribbean, and Pacific Islands,\u201d the works collected here clearly reflect the diversity of the Americas\u2019 oldest and most innovatively changing form of artistic expression: From the poetic-narrative style of Diane Glancy\u2019s approach to the Trail of Tears to Murielle Borst\u2019s lecture on Spiderwoman Theater\u2019s legacy, this volume presents both the originality and the interconnectedness of contemporary Native Women\u2019s theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Performing Worlds Into Being<\/em> was reviewed by the Southwest Journal of Cultures<\/em><\/a> on October 30, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPerforming Worlds into Being<\/em> is a rich, diverse, and indispensable contribution to the fields of Native Studies and American theater. It brings together some of the most prominent voices in Native North American theater through plays, interviews, surveys, critical analyses, poetic responses and essays. It is a truly communal celebration of contemporary indigenous performance.\u201d
\u2014Dr. Birgit D\u00e4wes<\/strong>, University of W\u00fcrzburg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt last! A text that comes from the heart of a playwright and the soul of Native performers. For anyone following the careers of Spiderwoman Theater, and many others working in Native theater, this is a treasure trove of performance, history, and interviews. Performing Worlds<\/em> is essential reading for anyone working in Native theater, and I will use it for years to come.\u201d
\u2014LeAnne Howe<\/strong>, University of Illinois<\/p>\n\n\n\n


About the Editors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ann Elizabeth Armstrong<\/strong> is Associate Professor of Theatre at Miami University. Besides having directed Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl\u2019s \u201cConversion of Ka\u2019ahumanu,\u201d Ms. Armstrong co-directs \u201cFinding Freedom Summer Project\u201d about Freedom Summer 1964<\/a>, has co-edited Radical Acts: Theatre and Feminist Pedagogies of Change<\/em> (Ant Lute 2007), and has published on community theater, performance studies, and feminist theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelli Lyon Johnson<\/strong> is Associate Professor of English at Miami University. She is the author of Julia Alvarez: Writing a New Place on the Map<\/em> (University of New Mexico Press 2005), and has also published on Native and Latina women writers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William A. Wortman<\/strong> is Humanities Librarian Emeritus and director of the Native American Women Playwrights Archive at Miami University. He has published on bibliography, librarianship, research methods, Walt Whitman, and Henry James.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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