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Teaching Tiger Lily: A rumination on race and representation in educational theatre through New Historicism, storyweaving, and Peter Pan
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2025-04-14
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The theatre industry has long dealt with issues of race and representation, but this especially came to a point in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter movement. Theatre classrooms are not exempt from conversations and complexities surrounding which stories should be told and who should tell them. The character Tiger Lily has a history of causing great harm to the Indigenous community while also being an Indigenous icon in Western culture. Using New Historicism and storyweaving, this dissertation looks at specific versions of the story Peter Pan through time and places them in conversation with their historical context, stories of and by Indigenous people, and anecdotes from the author. This research is intended to continue the discussion of how stories we tell can affect and harm marginalized communities and how theatre teachers might consider those harms moving forward.
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