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Book

Wings of night sky, wings of morning light : a play by Joy Harjo and a Circle of Responses

Author

Joy Harjo

Call Number

  • 812 H2822 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2019]

Physical Description

110 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Summary

"Joy Harjo's play Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light is the centerpiece of this collection that includes essays and interviews concerning the roots and the reaches of contemporary Native Theater. Harjo blends storytelling, music, movement, and poetic language in Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light. The collection is accompanied by interviews with Native theater artists Rolland Meinholtz and Randy Reinholz, and it includes essays on Harjo's work by Mary Kathryn Nagle (an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee nation, playwright, and attorney) and by Priscilla Page (of Wiyot heritage, a writer, performer, and educator), who looks at indigenous feminism, jazz, and performance as influences on Harjo's theatrical work."--Back cover.

Contents

  • Joy Harjo's "Wings": a revolution on the American stage / Wings of night sky, wings of morning light: a ceremony / Reflections on Joy Harjo, indigenous feminism, and experiments in creative expression / Toward the production of new native theater: an interview with Randy Reinholz / Imagining a contemporary native theater: an interview with Rolland Meinholtz / Learning to be: an interview with Joy Harjo

Subjects

Genres

Drama.