Cultural Collision and Magical Transformation: The Plays of Tomson Highway
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Nothof
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 20, no. 2, 1995, pp. 34-43
Description
Argues that Highway's plays have succeeded in bridging the gap between cultures through dramatizing the collision of feelings of hope and despair, comedy and tragedy, order and chaos and social issues like poverty, crime and abuse. Looks at The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing.