| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction & general bibliography / Yvette Hutchison & Amy Jephta -- Plays: with biographies, production histories and critical introductions -- Niqabi ninja / Sara Sawaari (Egypt) -- Not that woman / Tosin Tume (Nigeria) -- I want to fly / Thembelilhe Moyo (Zimbabwe) -- Silent voices / Adong Judith (Uganda) -- Unsettled / JC Niala (Kenya) -- Mbuzeni / Koleka Putuma (South Africa) -- Bonganyi / Sophia Mempuh (Cameroon) |
| Summary |
This volume draws together six contemporary plays by female African writers, offering a rare insight into the work being produced by these practitioners. These plays, which are selected from writers across the continent, together give a rich portrait of identity, politics, culture and society in contemporary Africa. The editors of the volume have also provided biographies and the writers' own artistic statements; production histories; and a critical contextualisation of the theatre from which each woman is writing. This provides a rich context from which these plays can be prescribed for study, both at secondary school and undergraduate level--Provided by publisher |
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African drama (English) -- Women authors
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African drama (English) -- 21st century
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Women -- Africa -- Drama
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights.
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Gender studies: women.
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Plays, playscripts.
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Performing Arts -- Theater -- Playwriting.
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Drama -- African.
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African drama (English)
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Women
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Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Drama
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hutchison, Yvette, editor
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Jeptha, Amy, editor
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Contains (work): Sawaari, Sara.
Niqabi ninja.
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Contains (work): Tume, Tosin.
Not that woman.
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Contains (work): Moyo, Thembelihle.
I want to fly.
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Contains (work): Judith, Adong.
Silent voices.
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Contains (work): Niala, J.C.
Unsettled.
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Contains (work): Putuma, Koleka.
Mbuzeni.
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Contains (work): Mempuh, Sophia.
Bonganyi.
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| ISBN |
9781350034532 |
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1350034533 |
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