| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
African expressive cultures |
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African expressive cultures.
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| Contents |
Introduction: poetics of duality and uncertainty -- History and mediations in making theatre -- Making culture : race, history, and a theory of performance in the Gold Coast colony -- The national theatre movement : urban art infrastructures and a contested national culture in independence-era Accra -- Revolutionary storytelling : Pan-African theatre and remaking lost futures in 1980s Ghana -- A man of the people : Mohammed Ben Abdallah as artist-politician -- Stagings in millennial Ghana -- Total African theatre : language, reflexivity, and ambiguity in The witch of Mopti -- "The best tradition goes on" : audience, consumption, and the structural transformation of Concert Party popular theatre -- Fake pastors and real comedians : doubling and parody in miraculous, charismatic performance -- Copying independence : backstage at the fiftieth-anniversary re-enactment of Nkrumah's independence speech -- Epilogue: unfreedom as critical theory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Theater and society -- Ghana.
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Theater -- Ghana -- History -- 20th century.
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Tricksters in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0253016452 |
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0253016533 |
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0253016592 (electronic bk) |
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9780253016454 |
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9780253016539 |
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9780253016591 (electronic bk) |
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