Waiting for Wovoka
Gerald Vizenor
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
In the summer of 1962, a group of young Native American puppeteers travel in a converted school bus from the White Earth Reservation to the Century 21 Exposition, World's Fair in Seattle, Washington. The five Natives, three young men and two young women, have endured abandonment, abuse, poverty, and find solace, humor, and courage with a mute puppeteer—a Native woman in her seventies who writes original dream songs, and creates hand puppets and ironic parleys that mock the ghosts of authority. Dummy Trout, the mute puppeteer, also figured in Native Tributes and Satie on the Seine. The troupe attends a performance of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and they create a puppet parley for Wovoka, the inspiration of the Native American Ghost Dance Religion.
Kundenbewertungen
Native Americans, puppetry, President John F. Kennedy, Sitting Bull, Tallulah Bankhead, Sacagawea, Aristotle, James Baldwin, Rachel Carson, Migizi, Noah Le Cros, Chief Seattle, Robert Frost, Edward Teller, Samuel Beckett, world fair, white earth reservation, Native American reservation, novel, Minneapolis, 1960’s, cultural change, creative literature, creative stories, Seattle World’s Fair, 1962, poverty, disability, mute artist, disabled artist, native American woman, songwriting, story-telling, art as soc