Healing Through Presence: The Embodiment of Absence in the Plays of Daniel David Moses

• Main Author: Stone, Timothy
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: presence; embodiment; English (Literary Studies); Indian; Moses; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4940

ABSTRACT In this thesis, it is argued that the performance of three plays written by Daniel David Moses: Brébeuf's Ghost, The Indian Medicine Shows and Almighty Voice and his Wife function as healing ceremonies. This healing - so necessary after the cultural genocide wrought upon First Nations...