Staging Inherited Stories
Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers by Aubrey Hanson
If You Discover a Fire by Shaun Robinson
Kailin Wright
In
Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre, Kailin Wright develops a theoretical framework to identify the strategies, functions, and impacts of political adaptation in Canadian theatre, a form of expression that Wright positions as a âleading mode of storytelling and self-definition in Canadaâ (3). This book addresses work by a range of playwrights and one collective (Marc Lescarbot, Optative Theatrical Laboratories, Margaret Clarke, Djanet Sears, Margaret Atwood, Erin Shields, Monique Mojica, and Daniel David Moses) who politicize inherited source material through a process of disidentificationââthe strategy of simultaneously identifying with and against a dominant ideology in order to change it from within.â By constructing an engaging âtheoretical architectureâ (3