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African drama and performance /

Contributor(s): Conteh-Morgan, John | Olaniyan, Tejumola.
Series: African expressive cultures.Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004Description: vi, 274 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780253217011 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780253217011:.Subject(s): Theater -- Africa -- History -- 20th century | Performing arts -- Africa -- History -- 20th century | African drama -- 20th century -- History and criticismDDC classification: 791.0960904
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: A collection of essays, from both renowned and emerging voices, on drama, theatre and performance in Africa and the diaspora. Topics range from studies of major dramatic authors to improvisational theatre to an analysis of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions as a kind of social performance.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-268) and index.

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.

A collection of essays, from both renowned and emerging voices, on drama, theatre and performance in Africa and the diaspora. Topics range from studies of major dramatic authors to improvisational theatre to an analysis of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions as a kind of social performance.

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