{"product_id":"lynn-riggs-the-indigenous-plays-paperback","title":"Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLynn Riggs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJames H. Cox\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlexander Pettit\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays\u003c\/em\u003e bundles critically edited texts of three thematically allied plays with an extensive primary, secondary, and textual apparatus. \u003cem\u003eThe Cherokee Night\u003c\/em\u003e (1932), comprising seven asynchronous scenes set between 1895 and 1931, is Riggs's 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Year of Pilar\u003c\/em\u003e (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 settler-colonialists for centuries of enslavement, torture, and sexual violence. Riggs returns to Indian Territory in \u003cem\u003eThe Cream in the Well\u003c\/em\u003e (1941), set on the eve of Oklahoma statehood. The Cherokee Sawters family responds to the onset of statehood by lamenting lost opportunities and fretting about an uncertain future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames H. Cox\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at the University at Texas at Austin and the author of, most recently, \u003cem\u003eThe Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). \u003cstrong\u003eAlexander Pettit\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at the University of North Texas and has published widely on modern drama and eighteenth-century literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770352337184,"sku":"9781554815913","price":40.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9be5d2d42a8548635759dc1c5b9c5af5.webp?v=1780370014","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/lynn-riggs-the-indigenous-plays-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}