Abstract
Foreign and Reserve Life Hand in Hand: Nation with in a Nation in Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters
Highlights
Literature has always been a medium that lucidly reflects the depth and vastness of human culture
Tomson Highway is an Aboriginal Canadian playwright, novelist and children’s author. He is best known for his plays ‘The Rez Sisters’ and ‘Dry Lipe Oughta Move to Kapuskasing’,both of which won him the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Floyd .S .Chalmers Award
As the play comes to an end the audience came to know the major themes such as Nation with in a Nation, race and ethnicity, cultural limitations are clearly portrayed including home as a element where every human heart is
Summary
Literature has always been a medium that lucidly reflects the depth and vastness of human culture. ‘The Res sisters’ is a two act play by Cree Canadian writer Tomson Highway, first performed on November 26, 1986 by Act Theatre Company and Native Earth Performing Arts. Tomson Highway is an Aboriginal Canadian playwright, novelist and children’s author. He is best known for his plays ‘The Rez Sisters’ and ‘Dry Lipe Oughta Move to Kapuskasing’ ,both of which won him the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Floyd .S .Chalmers Award. The play won1986-87 Dora Mavor Award for Outstanding New play, winner of the Floyd .S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1987 an dominated for Governor General’s Award for English Language Drama in 1988. In 2010 Highway staged Iskooniguni Iskweewuk, a Cree language version of the play
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