Format:
Online-Ressource (vi, 274 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0253217016
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0253344395
Series Statement:
African expressive cultures
Content:
African Drama and Performance is a collection of innovative and wide-ranging essays that bring conceptually fresh perspectives, from both renowned and emerging voices, to the study of drama, theatre, and performance in Africa. Topics range from studies of major dramatic authors and formal literary dramas to improvisational theatre and popular video films. South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions are analyzed as a kind of social performance, and aspects of African performance in the diaspora are
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-268) and index
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Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. King Baabu and the Renaissance Vision; 2. Dimensions of Theatricality in Africa; 3. Theatre and Anthropology, Theatricality and Culture; 4. Pre-Texts and Intermedia: African Theatre and the Question of History; 5. Soyinka, Euripides, and the Anxiety of Empire; 6. Antigone in the "Land of the Incorruptible": Sylvain Bemba's Noces posthumes de Santigone (Black Wedding Candles for Blessed Antigone); 7. Gestural Interpretation of the Occult in the Bin Kadi-SoAdaptation of Macbeth
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8. Yoruba Gods on the American Stage: August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone9. Femi Oso¤san: The Form of Uncommon Sense; 10. Revolution and Recidivism: The Problem of Kenyan History in the Plays of Ngugi wa Thiong'o; 11. The Politics and Theatre of Sony Labou Tansi; 12. Theatre for Development and TV Nation: Notes on Educational Soap Opera in South Africa; 13. Literacy, Improvisation, and the Virtual Script in Yoruba Popular Theatre; 14. "How They See It": The Politics and Aesthetics of Nigerian Video Films
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15. Modernity's Trickster: "Dipping" and "Throwing" in Congolese Popular Dance Music16. Theatres of Truth, Acts of Reconciliation: The TRC in South Africa; 17. The Turner-Schechner Model of Performance as Social Drama: A Reexamination in Light of Anlo-Ewe Haló; 18. Theatricality and Social Mimodrama; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253344397
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe African Drama and Performance
Language:
English
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