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Briefcase Warriors: Stories for the Stage (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series) [Hardcover]

E. Donald Two-Rivers (Author)
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American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series March 15, 2001

In Briefcase Warriors, a collection of six fast-paced, thought-provoking plays, E. Donald Two-Rivers presents an intricate and multifaceted view of contemporary American Indian urban life. Alternately sad, humorous, or discomfiting, these plays range from one-act vignettes accessible to young adults to extended portrayals of the seedier side of urban existence. Fast-talking and hard-living, the characters depicted by Two-Rivers struggle to survive the sometimes hostile environs of a society whose members think of them as a vanishing race.

The plays included are: Winter Summit or the Bang-Bang Incident; Forked Tongues; Chili Corn; Coyote Sits in Judgment; Shattered Dream; and Old Indian Trick (An Old Urban Indian Story as Told by an Old Urban Indian Who May Have Lied).


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American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, Vol 38

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E. Donald Two-Rivers, of American (Chippewa) descent, is artistic director of the Red Path Theater Company in Chicago. He is the author of Survivor's Medicine: Short Stories (University of Oklahoma Press), winner of the 1999 American Book Award.


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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press (March 15, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0806133015
  • ISBN-13: 978-0806133010
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,947,303 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tonto hits the Lone Ranger with his Briefcase, June 21, 2010
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The allusion to Alexie's book is no coincidence. The preface alone is a primer for American Indian Contemporary Cultural or Arts Studies. Like Alexie he shows how much humor is a means of survival for Indians but his stories do not take place on the Rez'. Having been both a Rez' and Urban Indian I can appreciate both environments but most Americans do not realize the amount of policies that went into creating the amount of Urban Indians there are. Urban Indians face different challenges and that is what E. Donald Two-Rivers does such a good job of showing.
Two-Rivers harkens back to the oral storytelling tradition of American Indians. His characters like Alexie's have real lives but move in a world that thinks they are not important and believe them to fit into stereotypes if not disappeared into history. After any of the plays included in this collection a reader, performer or audience will know that there are Indians of all kinds that live among us. That (surviving American Indians of all kinds) is truly important for American Indians to reassert while breaking down stereotypes.
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First Sentence:
This is not a traditional Indian story. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
curtain rises, audience cheers, revival tent, riot gun, short pause
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Hydro Company, Dan O'Malley, Harvey Two Kill, Chicken Wing, Luke Frambeau, Brother Mack, Chili Corn, Jesus Christ, Miss Amanda, Miss Gray Wolf, Miss Steele, Mother Earth, Scene One, Detective Sanchez, Robert's Rules, Runs Fast, Scene Three, Scene Two, Don Dooley, Hydro Project, Miss Brenda, Norma Gray Wolf, Reverend Turner, Scene Five, Scene Four
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