Persons of courage and renown : Tuareg actors, acting, plays, and cultural memory in northern Mali /
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| Author / Creator: | Rasmussen, Susan J., 1949- author. |
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| Imprint: | Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019] |
| Description: | viii, 225 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11777410 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Malian Tuareg (Kel Taniajaq) Theatrical Performance: Creativity in Crisis, Vulnerability, and Resilience
- Part I. The Actros, Verbal Arts, and Performance
- 1. General Background on the Tuareg, the Kel Adagh, and the Town and Region of Kidal
- 2. Situating Acting and Creativity in Culture, Place, and Memory
- 3. The Poetics and Politics of Aesthetic Style and Genre and the Ibaraden Actors
- 4. Acting and Cultural Translation: Actors and Audiences as Interpreters and Mediators in Reformulating "Traditional" and "Modern"
- Part II. The Plays: Popular Plot Themes and their Wider Social Contexts
- 5. Rural-Urban and Nomadic-Sedentarized Encounters: Nostalgia and Disdain
- 6. Disputed Gender, Relations between the Sexes, and Embodied Performance
- 7. Youths and Elders: Resistance and Healing in Intergenerational Ambivalence
- 8. Religious Reflections and Social Dissonance
- Conclusions: Tuareg Acting as Nostalgia, Critique, and Hope
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
