African drama and performance /
| Imprint: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 274 pages). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African expressive cultures African expressive cultures. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11140032 |
| Summary: | 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 also considered. This dynamic volume underscores theatre's role in postcolonial society and politics and reexamines performance as a form of high art and everyday social ritual. Contributors are Akin Adesokan, Daniel Avorgbedor, Karin Barber, Nicholas Brown, Catherine Cole, John Conteh-Morgan, Johannes Fabian, Joachim Fiebach, Marie-José Hourantier, Loren Kruger, Pius Ngandu Nkashama, Isidore Okpewho, Tejumola Olaniyan, Ato Quayson, Sandra L. Richards, Wole Soyinka, Dominic Thomas, and Bob W. White. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 274 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0253110904 9780253110909 0253344395 9780253344397 0253217016 9780253217011 1282071343 9781282071346 |