| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 274 pages) |
| Series |
African expressive cultures |
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African expressive cultures.
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| Contents |
King Baabu and the Renaissance vision / Wole Soyinka -- Dimensions of theatricality in Africa / Joachim Fiebach -- Theatre and anthropology, theatricality, and culture / Johannes Fabian -- Pre-texts and intermedia: African theatre and the question of history / Ato Quayson -- Soyinka, Euripides, and the anxiety of empire / Isidore Okpewho -- Antigone in the "land of the incorruptible": Sylvain Bemba's Noces posthumes pour santigone (black wedding candles for blessed-Antigone) / John Conteh-Morgan -- Gestural interpretation of the occult in the Bin Kadi-so adaptation of Macbeth / Marie-José Hourantier -- Yoruba gods on the American stage: August Wilson's Joe Turner's come and gone / Sandra L. Richards -- Femi Osofisan: the form of uncommon sense / Tejumola Olaniyan -- Revolution and recidivism: the problem of Kenyan history in the plays of Ngugi wa Thiong'o / Nicholas Brown -- The politics and theatre of Sony Labou Tansi / Dominic Thomas -- Theatre for development and TV nation: notes on educational soap opera in South Africa / Loren Kruger -- Literacy, improvisation, and the virtual script in Yoruba popular theatre / Karin Barber -- "How they see it": the politics and aesthetics of Nigerian video films / Akin Adesokan -- Modernity's trickster: "dipping" and "throwing" in Congolese popular dance music / Bob W. White -- Theatres of truth, acts of reconciliation: the TRC in South Africa / Catherine M. Cole -- The Turner-Schechner model of performance as social drama: a reexamination in light of Anlo-Ewe Haló / Daniel Avorgbedor -- Theatricality and social mimodrama / Pius Ngandu Nkashama |
| Summary |
This title explores the diversity of the performing arts in Africa and the diaspora, from studies of major dramatic authors and formal literary dramas to improvisational theatre and popular video films |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Theater -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
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Performing arts -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
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African drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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African drama
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Performing arts
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Theater
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Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Conteh-Morgan, John
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Olaniyan, Tejumola
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| ISBN |
0253110904 |
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9780253110909 |
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0253344395 |
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9780253344397 |
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0253217016 |
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9780253217011 |
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1282071343 |
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9781282071346 |
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