The unending appetite for stories : genre theory, indigenous theatre and Tomson Highway s Rez Cycle

• Autor(a) principal: Cunha, Rubelise da
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da FURG (RI FURG)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.furg.br/handle/1/2353

Drama confirms the roots of Indigenous literatures in traditional storytelling performances; therefore it contributes to a theoretical approach to literary genres that is Indigenous-centered and focuses on how stories shape the literary text. Tomson Highway’s “Rez Cycle” exemplifies how theater gives continuity to Cree/Ojibway storytelling through a representation of past and present, history and myth, and through the performance of the rituals of sacrifice that produce feelings of transformation and healing each time Nanabush is resurrected. His plays establish a dialogue with new approaches to genre theory and validate Indigenous theater as a form of symbolic action that performs kinesthetic healing in actors and audience.