African drama and performance

Author(s)

• Conteh-Morgan, John
• Olaniyan, Tejumola

Bibliographic Information

African drama and performance

edited by John Conteh-Morgan and Tejumola Olaniyan

（African expressive cultures）

Indiana University Press, c2004

• : pbk

Note

"A Research in African literatures book"--Facing t.p

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-268) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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-Jose Hourantier, Loren Kruger, Pius Ngandu Nkashama, Isidore Okpewho, Tejumola Olaniyan, Ato Quayson, Sandra L. Richards, Wole Soyinka, Dominic Thomas, and Bob W. White.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Tejumola Olaniyan and John Conteh-Morgan Part 1. General Contexts 1. TBA Wole Soyinka 2. Dimensions of Theatricality in Africa Joachim Fiebach 3. Theater and Anthropology, Theatricality and Culture Johannes Fabian 4. Pre-Texts and Intermedia: African Theater and the Question of History Ato Quayson Part 2. Intercultural Negotiations 5. Soyinka, Euripides, and the Anxiety of Empire Isidore Okpewho 6. Antigone in the "Land of the Incorruptible": Sylvain Bemba's Noces posthumes pour Santigone (Black Wedding Candles for Blessed- Antigone) John Conteh-Morgan 7. Gestural Interpretation of the Occult in the Bin Kadi-So Adaptation of Macbeth Marie-Jose Hourantier 8. Yoruba Gods on the American Stage: August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone Sandra L. Richards Part 3. Radical Politics and Aesthetics 9. Femi Osofisan: The Form of Uncommon Sense Tejumola Olaniyan 10. Revolution and Recidivism: The Problem of Kenyan History in the Plays of Ngugi wa Thiong'o Nicholas Brown 11. The Politics and Theater of Sony Labou Tansi Dominic Thomas Part 4. Popular Expressive Genres and the Performance of Culture 12. Theater for Development and TV Nation: Notes on Educational Soap Opera in South Africa Loren Kruger 13. Literacy, Improvisation, and the Virtual Script in Yoruba Popular Theater Karin Barber 14. Modernity's Trickster: "Dipping" and "Throwing" in Congolese Popular Dance Music Bob W. White 15. How They See It: The Politics and Aesthetics of Nigeria Video Films Akin Adesokan Part 5. The Social as Drama 16. The Turner-Schechner Model of Performance as Social Drama: A Re-examination in Light of Anlo-Ewe Halo Daniel Avorgbedor 17. Theaters of Truth, Acts of Reconciliation: The TRC in South Africa Catherine Cole 18. Theatricality and Social Mimodrama Pius Ngandu Nkashama Bibliography Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BA7146316X
• ISBN:
  • 0253217016
• LCCN: 2004000688
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bloomington
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 274 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN2969
  • DC22 : 791/.096/0904
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Theater -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Performing arts -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : African drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA69212495