In my thesis I explore the female characters in the dramatic
work of Diane Glancy, a contemporary novelist, poet and
playwright of  Cherokee, German and  English origin.
I consider her heroines to be images of Cherokee  women that
mirror the changes these women and their social position have
undergone since the European invasion. Therefore, to support my
literary analysis of Glancy’s female characters, I use
ethno-historical and feminist studies, drawing especially on
the work of the historian Theda Perdue and the writer and
critic Paula Gunn Allen.