Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays. Riggs, Riggs, Justice, 9781554815913 New**

Name: Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays. Riggs, Riggs, Justice, 9781554815913 New**
Brand: Broadview Press Ltd

Broadview Press Ltd

Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays bundles critically edited texts of three thematically allied plays with an extensive primary, secondary, and textual apparatus. The Cherokee Night (1932), comprising seven asynchronous scenes set between 1895 and 1931, is Riggs\u2019s most experimental play. Its Cherokee characters inhabit a history of dispossession and violence, including the dissolution of the Cherokee Nation with Oklahoma statehood in 1907. Their daily survival constitutes the apex of resistance. Not so for the Indigenes of The Year of Pilar (1938), the most radical American Indian text prior to the Native American renaissance that began in the late 1960s. Here, Yucatecan Mayans take a government program of land reform as an opportunity to reclaim their homeland and punish\n\nLynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the price advertised is as lo;