Sultan to sultan : adventures among the Masai and other tribes of East Africa
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Sultan to sultan : adventures among the Masai and other tribes of East Africa
（Exploring travel）
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999
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"Sultan to sultan : adventures among the Masai ..., by M. French-Sheldon, 'Bébé Bwana'"
Originally published: Boston : Arena, 1892
Includes bibliographical references and index
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First published in 1892, M. French-Sheldon's book describes her 1891 expedition that took her from the court of the Sultan of Zanzibar to the Mount Kilimanjaro region of East Africa. Unlike most women travellers of the period, the American-born French-Sheldon dressed extravagantly on her 1000-mile expedition, greeting African chiefs or "sultans" dressed as a "White Queen" - in a long white court dress bedecked with large jewels and wearing a waist-length blonde wig and sparkling tiaras on her head. Consistently portraying herself as "alone", French-Sheldon was accompanied by a retinue of African porters, numbering over 140 men, whom she claimed to control through the whip, the pistol and the injunction "Noli me tangere" (touch me not) which emblazoned a banner which she flew from her walking stick. This African adventure narrative is accompanied by a critical introduction that explores the cultural context within which this text appeared and the political implications of the "imperial feminism" that French-Sheldon espoused.
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As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts. Leaving behind unhelpful cliches that pit, above all, the director against the playwright, Peter M. Boenisch stages playful encounters between Continental theatre and Continental philosophy.
The contemporary Regie work of Thomas Ostermeier, Frank Castorf, Ivo van Hove, Guy Cassiers, tg STAN, and others, here meets the works of Friedrich Schiller and Leopold Jessner, Hegelian speculative dialectics, and the critical philosophy of Jacques Ranciere and Slavoj Zizek in order to explore the thinking of Regie - how to think Regie, and how Regie thinks. -- .
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