African Drama and Performance - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0253217016 ISBN 13 : 9780253217011

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John Conteh-Morgan is Associate Professor of French and African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University. He is author of Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa and editor of Research in African Literatures.

Tejumola Olaniyan is Professor of English and African Languages and
Literatures at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is author of Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0253217016
• ISBN 13: 9780253217011
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Conteh-Morgan John, Olaniyan Tejumola
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible