African drama and performance / edited by John Conteh-Morgan and Tejumola Olaniyan.
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2004.
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Series: | African expressive cultures.
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Table of Contents:
- King Baabu and the Renaissance vision / Wole Soyinka
- Dimensions of theatricality in Africa / Joachim Fiebach
- Theatre and anthropology, theatricality, and culture / Johannes Fabian
- Pre-texts and intermedia: African theatre and the question of history / Ato Quayson
- Soyinka, Euripides, and the anxiety of empire / Isidore Okpewho
- Antigone in the "land of the incorruptible": Sylvain Bemba's Noces posthumes pour santigone (black wedding candles for blessed-Antigone) / John Conteh-Morgan
- Gestural interpretation of the occult in the Bin Kadi-so adaptation of Macbeth / Marie-José Hourantier
- Yoruba gods on the American stage: August Wilson's Joe Turner's come and gone / Sandra L. Richards
- Femi Osofisan: the form of uncommon sense / Tejumola Olaniyan
- Revolution and recidivism: the problem of Kenyan history in the plays of Ngugi wa Thiong'o / Nicholas Brown
- The politics and theatre of Sony Labou Tansi / Dominic Thomas
- Theatre for development and TV nation: notes on educational soap opera in South Africa / Loren Kruger
- Literacy, improvisation, and the virtual script in Yoruba popular theatre / Karin Barber
- "How they see it": the politics and aesthetics of Nigerian video films / Akin Adesokan
- Modernity's trickster: "dipping" and "throwing" in Congolese popular dance music / Bob W. White
- Theatres of truth, acts of reconciliation: the TRC in South Africa / Catherine M. Cole
- The Turner-Schechner model of performance as social drama: a reexamination in light of Anlo-Ewe Haló / Daniel Avorgbedor
- Theatricality and social mimodrama / Pius Ngandu Nkashama.