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Hahn, Miriam.

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Playing hippies and Indians: Acts of cultural colonization in the theatre of the American counterculture.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Playing hippies and Indians: Acts of cultural colonization in the theatre of the American counterculture./
Author:	Hahn, Miriam.
Description:	227 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-05A(E).
Subject:	Native American studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3671365
ISBN:	9781321484663

Playing hippies and Indians: Acts of cultural colonization in the theatre of the American counterculture.
Hahn, Miriam.

Playing hippies and Indians: Acts of cultural colonization in the theatre of the American counterculture. - 227 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bowling Green State University, 2014.

In this dissertation, I examine the appropriation of Native American cultures and histories in the theatre of the American counterculture of the 1960s and seventies, using the Living Theatre's Paradise Now, the street theatricals and broadsides of the San Francisco Diggers, and James Rado and Gerome Ragni's Hair: The American Tribal-Love Rock Musical as my primary case studies. Defining themselves by points of difference from mainstream America and its traditional social and cultural values, counterculturalists often attempted to align themselves with Native Americans in order to express an imagined sense of shared otherness. Representations of Natives on countercultural stages, however, were frequently steeped in stereotype, and they often depicted Native cultures inaccurately, elided significant tribal differences, and relegated Native identity almost wholly to the past, a practice that was particularly problematic in light of concurrent Native rights movements that were actively engaged in bringing national attention to the contemporary issues and injustices Native Americans faced on a daily basis.

ISBN: 9781321484663Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122730
Native American studies.

Playing hippies and Indians: Acts of cultural colonization in the theatre of the American counterculture.
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