Female Agency in Diana Glancy’s The Woman Who Was A Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance
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Agency, Native American, Diana Glancy, The Woman Who Was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance.Abstract
Agency becomes a condition for other ethnic communities that do not have European roots. Cultural legacy, history, and family are significant in the process of agency. Diana Glancy aims to recount the idea that a native person must give up cultural allegiance to blend in harmony within privileged-class. This study discusses self-agency in The Woman Who Was A Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance (1995) by the contemporary American women playwright, Diana Glancy. Generally speaking, as a result of racism and ethnocentrism, native Americans are mistreated and are considered as second class citizens. Moreover, this class of people has usually been under the struggle of absorption and conservation their real agency. In her play, Glancy is able to entwine various cultures in the narrative sense and descriptive one. Making use of her pays, Glancy has the ability of manipulating the sides of borderlands for the purpose of creating a sensation of fragmentation that reflected the disunity of the native American culture. She, however, usually attains that by utilizing unanticipated and devious structures of language. Moreover, her play depicts the conflict between two characters that belonged to two generations, Grandmother and Girl. Glancy believe that agency is essential in a society of cultural differences.
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