Enacting Nature

Birgit Däwes is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Vienna. She specializes in Native North American literatures and cultures. Next to a monograph study on Native North American Theater in a Global Age (2007) and the recent collection, Indigenous North American Drama. A Multivocal History (2013), she has also published a study on fiction as a mode of cultural memory: Ground Zero Fiction. History, Memory, and Representation in the American 9/11 Novel (2011). Marc Maufort is Professor of English, American and postcolonial literatures at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB, Belgium). He has written and (co)-edited several books on O’Neill as well as on postcolonial and multi-ethnic drama, including Transgressive Itineraries. Postcolonial Hybridizations of Dramatic Realism (2003), and Labyrinth of Hybridities. Avatars of O’Neillian Realism in Multi-ethnic American Drama (1972-2003) (2010).

• Contents: Birgit Däwes/Marc Maufort: A Chorus of Ecological Voices. Enacting Nature in Contemporary Indigenous Performance – Birgit Däwes: Stages of Resilience. Heteroholistic Environments in Plays by Marie Clements and Yvette Nolan – Ric Knowles: Mounds, Earthworks, Side Show Freaks and Circus Injuns – Jaye T. Darby: «Civilization» and its Transgressions on the Old Shawnee Trail. Lynn Riggs’s Out of Dust – Maryann Henck: «alterNature» in Drew Hayden Taylor’s The Berlin Blues. Construction and De(con)struction of Contested Spaces – Yvette Nolan: The Collapse of Worlds in Laura Shamas’s Chasing Honey – Nicholle Dragone: Eric Gansworth. Dramatizing the Ecology of Haudenosaunee Creation – Ginny Ratsoy: Voicing Nature in the British Columbia Interior. A Place «Back in the Midst of Time» in Kevin Loring’s Where the Blood Mixes – Maryrose Casey: Serving the Living Land. Place and Belonging in Australian Aboriginal Drama – Rachael Swain: Dance, History and Country. An Uneasy Ecology in Australia – Diana Looser: « Je te parle d’harmonie entre les plantes ». Ecologies of New Caledonian Nationhood in Pierre Gope’s La Parenthèse – Lisa Warrington/David O’Donnell: Unfolding the Cloth. Patterns of Landscape and Identity in The Conch’s Masi – Hilary Halba: Cleansing the Tapu. Nature, Landscape and Transformation in Three Works by Māori Playwrights – Marc Maufort: Performing the Spirit of the Earth. Multi-faceted Aesthetics of Ecology in Contemporary Indigenous Drama.