| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 166 pages) |
| Contents |
Re-visionary history as myth performance: a postcolonial re-reading of Maud Cuney-Hare's Antar of Araby, Willis Richardson's The Black horseman, and Aimé Césaire's And the dogs were silent -- The Òrìsà paradigm: an overview of African-derived mythology, folklore, and kinesthetic dance performative -- Performative body language in Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Lynn Nottage's Ruined: African female bodies through African American eyes -- The codification of soul in African-derived dance culture -- Of rebels, tricksters, and supernatural beings: toward a semiotics of myth performance in African Caribbean and Afro-Brazilian dramas -- Of princesses and queens: the mythical journeys home in Djanet Sears' Afrika, solo and Rebecca Fisseha's Wise.woman |
| Summary |
This book examines the concept and practice of myth performance in African Diaspora dramas and dances. These six essays chart a new path that enriches and enhances the understanding of African diaspora myth performance in literary and diaspora studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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| Subject |
Drama -- Black authors -- History and criticism
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Mythology, African, in literature.
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English literature -- African influences.
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Dance, Black -- History and criticism
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DRAMA -- American.
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Dance, Black
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Drama -- Black authors
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English literature -- African influences
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Mythology, African, in literature
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Influence
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| Subject |
Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kuwabong, Dannabang, 1955- author.
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Olsen, Christopher, 1952- author.
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| LC no. |
2021676546 |
| ISBN |
9780810892804 |
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0810892804 |
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9781306282352 |
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1306282357 |
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