[ebooks] We Are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence (Athabasca University Press) by From AU Press in Arts-Photography

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The latest volume in Methuens Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into EnglishVolume 8 of Brechts collected plays contains his last completed plays; from the eight years between his return from America to Europe after the war and his death in 1956. Brechts ANTIGONE (1948) is a bold adaptation of Holderlins classic German translation of Sophocles play. A reflection on resistance and dictatorship in the aftermath of Nazism; it was a radical new experiment in epic theatre. THE DAYS OF THE COMMUNE (1949) is a semi-documentary account of the Paris Commune; and Brechts most serious and ambitious historical play. TURANDOT is Brechts version of the classic Chinese story is a satire on the intelligentsia of the Weimar Republic; Nazi bureaucracy; and other targets.