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African Theatres and Performances
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

African Theatres and Performances

This text looks at four performances in Africa and uses this to question the tendency in much western and some non-western scholarship to employ western frames of reference to examine/appreciate every kind of theatre or performance.

Performative Inter-actions in African Theatre
  • Language: en

Performative Inter-actions in African Theatre

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre is a book-set with unique subtitles designed to focus and differentiate between the three volumes in the set. The first volume, Diaspora Representations and the Interweaving of Cultures, explores the idea that in and from their various locations around the world, the plays of the African diaspora acknowledge and pay homage to the cultures of home, while simultaneously and vigorously articulating a sense of their Africanness in their various inter-actions with their host cultures. In the second volume, Innovation, Creativity and Social Change, contributions address performativity as a process â " particularly in the context of theatreâ (TM)s eng...

Performative Inter-actions in African Theatre 3
  • Language: en

Performative Inter-actions in African Theatre 3

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book is part of a three-volume book-set published under the general title of Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre. Each of the three books in the set has a unique subtitle that works to better focus its content, and differentiates it from the other two volumes. The contributorsâ (TM) backgrounds and global spread adequately reflect the international focus of the three books that make up the collection. The contributions, in their various ways, demonstrate the many advances and ingenious solutions adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling some of the challenges arising from the adverse colonial experience, as well as the â oeone-sidedâ advance of globalisation. The...

The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 522

The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race

The fi rst comprehensive publication on the subject, this book investigates interactions between racial thinking and the stage in the modern and contemporary world, with 25 essays on case studies that will shed light on areas previously neglected by criticism while providing fresh perspectives on already-investigated contexts. Examining performances from Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa, China, Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacifi c islands, this collection ultimately frames the history of racial narratives on stage in a global context, resetting understandings of race in public discourse.

Performative Inter-actions in African Theatre
  • Language: en

Performative Inter-actions in African Theatre

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book is part of a three-volume book-set published under the general title of Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre. Each of the three books in the set has a unique subtitle that works to better focus its content, and differentiates it from the other two volumes. The contributorsâ (TM) backgrounds and global spread adequately reflect the international focus of the three books that make up the collection. The contributions, in their various ways, demonstrate the many advances and ingenious solutions adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling some of the challenges arising from the adverse colonial experience, as well as the â oeone-sidedâ advance of globalisation. The...

Theatre and Performance in East Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 182

Theatre and Performance in East Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-03-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Theatre and Performance in East Africa looks at indigenous performances to unearth the aesthetic principles, sensibilities and critical framework that underpin African performance and theatre. The book develops new paradigms for thinking about African performance in general through the construction of a critical framework that addresses questions concerning performance particularities and coherences, challenging previous understandings. To this end, it establishes a common critical and theoretical framework for indigenous performance using case studies from East Africa that are also reflected elsewhere in the continent. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre and performance, especially those with an interest in the close relationship between theatre and performance with culture.

African Theatre
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170

African Theatre

Guest edited by Christine Matzke & Osita Okagbue, this latest volume in the African Theatre series celebrates the African theatrical diaspora from Brazil to Tasmania, and Canada to Cuba.

Culture and Identity in African and Caribbean Theatre
  • Language: en

Culture and Identity in African and Caribbean Theatre

Because of a shared experience of European colonialism and trans-Atlantic slavery, issues of culture and identity are major concerns for African and Caribbean playwrights. Slavery and colonialism had involved systematic acts of cultural denigration, de-humanization and loss of freedom, which left imprints on the collective psyches of the colonized Africans and enslaved peoples of African descent in the Caribbean. Both experiences brought intense cultural and psychic dislocations which still impact in various ways on the lives of Africans and peoples of African descent around the world. African and Caribbean playwrights try to help their peoples regain their dignities by affirming their cultures, histories and identities. The book focuses on the similarities and differences between Caribbean theatre and the theatre of sub-Saharan Africa, showing how identities and cultures are negotiated and affirmed in each case.

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 591

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, this book investigates three major aesthetic paradigms in African diasporic literature: the Sankofan wave (late 1960s–early 1990s); the Janusian wave (1990s–2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants (those born and growing up outside Africa). Written by well-established and emerging scholars of African and diasporic literatures from across the world, the chapters in the book cover the works of well-known and not-so-well-known Anglophone, ...

An Autobiography of the Life of Chief Richard Wecheta Okagbue
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 38

An Autobiography of the Life of Chief Richard Wecheta Okagbue

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-09-30
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  • Publisher: Unknown

An Autobiography Of The Life Of Chief Richard Wecheta Okagbue