Performing Possible Worlds into Being: Indigenous Performance of Resilience and Strength
Performing Possible Worlds into Being: Indigenous Performance of Resilience and Strength

Summary/Abstract: In this article, I analyse the work of two Native playwrights: Mary Kathryn Nagle’s (Cherokee) Sliver of a Full Moon and Marie Clements’ (Metis/Dene) Tombs of the Vanishing Indian. I trace how these two women use the stage as a space for portraying embodied, historic, gendered violence, like rape, forced sterilization, and the disruption of family relationships. In addition, Nagle and Clements also perform possible worlds into being where Native women lead their communities toward healing and restoration.

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