Michelle McGeough: "Go Wan Go Mohawk’s Queering of West"
The Department of Art History & Communication Studies and the Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative present "Go Wan Go Mohawk’s Queering of West," a talk by Prof. Michelle McGeough (Concordia University) on Thursday, November 23, 5:30-6:30 pm, in Arts W-215.
The talk focuses on Go-won-go Mohawk's life as the first Native American playwright, her larger-than-life persona(s) and "troubling gender" performances. In plying her craft, Go-won-go Mohawk brought into the realm of public discourse a construction of Native American masculinity that differed from popular stereotypes. In her stage performances as the Native American male protagonist in the plays Wep-Ton-No Mah, The Indian Mail Carrier, and The Flaming Arrow, she did not portray Native Americans as victims but as the heroes.
For complete information, please see the event posting (here) on the Department of Art History and Communication Studies.Â
