African drama and performance / edited by John Conteh-Morgan and Tejumola Olaniyan.
by
Conteh-Morgan, John.
ISBN
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9780253110909
9780253344397
9780253217011
Title
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African drama and performance / edited by John Conteh-Morgan and Tejumola Olaniyan.
Author
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Conteh-Morgan, John.
Publication Information
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (vi, 274 pages).
Series
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African expressive cultures
Contents
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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.
Local Note
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eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subject Term
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Theater -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Performing arts -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
African drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Added Author
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Conteh-Morgan, John.
Olaniyan, Tejumola.
Format
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Electronic Resources
Electronic Access
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Publication Date
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2004
Publication Information
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004.
Shelf Number | Material Type | Copy | Shelf Location | Status |
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791.0960904 22 | 1:E-BOOK | 1 | 1:ONLINE | Available for online access and/or download |