Modern African drama : backgrounds and criticism /
Modern African drama : backgrounds and criticism /
edited by Biodun Jeyifo.
- 1st ed.
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2001.
- xii, 646 p. ; 24 cm.
- A Norton critical edition .
- Norton critical edition. .
"Authoritative texts of: Fate of a cockroach -- Intelligence powder -- Sizwe Bansi is dead -- Death and the king's horseman -- Collision of altars -- The dilemma of a ghost -- I will marry when I want -- Esu and the vagabond minstrels."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 643-646).
Fate of a Cockroach / Intelligence Powder / Sizwe Bansi Is Dead / Death and the King's Horseman / Collision of Altars / The Dilemma of a Ghost / I Will Marry When I Want / Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels / On National Culture / Theatre in African Traditional Cultures: Survival Patterns / Enactments of Power: The Politics of Performance Space / The Reinvention of Theatrical Tradition / African Theatre in a Global Context / Dimensions of Theatricality in Africa / Art as Tool, Weapon or Shield?: Arts for Development Seminar, Harare / [Trends in the Drama of Tawfik al-Hakim] / Introduction to "Fate of a Cockroach" and Other Plays / Tawfik al-Hakim -- Kateb Yacine -- Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona -- Wole Soyinka -- Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin -- Ama Ata Aidoo -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii -- Femi Osofisan -- Frantz Fanon -- Wole Soyinka -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Biodun Jeyifo -- Don Rubin -- Joachim Fiebach -- David Kerr -- Paul Starkey -- Denys Johnson-Davies -- [Philosophical and Psychological Themes in Fate of a Cockroach] / [The Theatrical Carnivalesque in Intelligence Powder] / [Populist Aesthetics and Idioms in Kateb Yacine's Theatre] / The Pragmatics and Aesthetics of Kateb Yacine's Theatre Practice / Introduction to Statements / "Robert Zwelinzima Is Alive" / [Artistic Ambivalence in Sizwe Bansi Is Dead] / The Statements Plays / Author's Note to Death and the King's Horseman / Towards a True Theatre / The Fox's Dance: The Staging of Soyinka's Plays / [Cultural Death and the King's Horseman] / Tribute to Wole Soyinka / Author's Note to Collision of Altars / Collision of Altars: Notes on History / Richard Long -- Bernard Aresu -- Jacqueline Kaye and Abdelhamid Zoubir -- Kamal Salhi -- Athol Fugard -- Russell Vandenbroucke -- Hilary Seymour -- Dennis Walder -- Wole Soyinka -- Wole Soyinka -- Annemarie Heywood -- Adebayo Williams -- Michael Etherton -- Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin -- Richard Pankhurst -- Art and Ideology in the Plays of Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin / [Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin and Ethiopian Reformist Theatre] / [Oral Tradition in Dilemma of a Ghost] / [Motherhood in Ama Ata Aidoo's Plays] / A Bird of the Wayside Sings / Women in Cultural Work: The Fate of the Kamiriithu People's Theatre in Kenya / I Will Marry When I Want / [Formal Strategies and Social Commentary in His Plays] / Hegemony Rests with the Audience / [Form, Content, and Context in Femi Osofisan's Drama] / [The Theatre of Femi Osofisan] / African Drama: A Chronology. Biodun Jeyifo -- Jane Plastow -- Lloyd W. Brown -- C. L. Innes -- Vincent O. Odamtten -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Oliver Lovesey -- Femi Osofisan -- Sandra Richards -- Abiola Irele -- Chris Dunton --
0393975290 (pbk.)
2001044667
African drama (English)
African drama (English)--History and criticism.
Theater--Africa.
Africa--Drama.
PR9347 / .M63 2002
822.008/096
"Authoritative texts of: Fate of a cockroach -- Intelligence powder -- Sizwe Bansi is dead -- Death and the king's horseman -- Collision of altars -- The dilemma of a ghost -- I will marry when I want -- Esu and the vagabond minstrels."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 643-646).
Fate of a Cockroach / Intelligence Powder / Sizwe Bansi Is Dead / Death and the King's Horseman / Collision of Altars / The Dilemma of a Ghost / I Will Marry When I Want / Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels / On National Culture / Theatre in African Traditional Cultures: Survival Patterns / Enactments of Power: The Politics of Performance Space / The Reinvention of Theatrical Tradition / African Theatre in a Global Context / Dimensions of Theatricality in Africa / Art as Tool, Weapon or Shield?: Arts for Development Seminar, Harare / [Trends in the Drama of Tawfik al-Hakim] / Introduction to "Fate of a Cockroach" and Other Plays / Tawfik al-Hakim -- Kateb Yacine -- Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona -- Wole Soyinka -- Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin -- Ama Ata Aidoo -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii -- Femi Osofisan -- Frantz Fanon -- Wole Soyinka -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Biodun Jeyifo -- Don Rubin -- Joachim Fiebach -- David Kerr -- Paul Starkey -- Denys Johnson-Davies -- [Philosophical and Psychological Themes in Fate of a Cockroach] / [The Theatrical Carnivalesque in Intelligence Powder] / [Populist Aesthetics and Idioms in Kateb Yacine's Theatre] / The Pragmatics and Aesthetics of Kateb Yacine's Theatre Practice / Introduction to Statements / "Robert Zwelinzima Is Alive" / [Artistic Ambivalence in Sizwe Bansi Is Dead] / The Statements Plays / Author's Note to Death and the King's Horseman / Towards a True Theatre / The Fox's Dance: The Staging of Soyinka's Plays / [Cultural Death and the King's Horseman] / Tribute to Wole Soyinka / Author's Note to Collision of Altars / Collision of Altars: Notes on History / Richard Long -- Bernard Aresu -- Jacqueline Kaye and Abdelhamid Zoubir -- Kamal Salhi -- Athol Fugard -- Russell Vandenbroucke -- Hilary Seymour -- Dennis Walder -- Wole Soyinka -- Wole Soyinka -- Annemarie Heywood -- Adebayo Williams -- Michael Etherton -- Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin -- Richard Pankhurst -- Art and Ideology in the Plays of Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin / [Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin and Ethiopian Reformist Theatre] / [Oral Tradition in Dilemma of a Ghost] / [Motherhood in Ama Ata Aidoo's Plays] / A Bird of the Wayside Sings / Women in Cultural Work: The Fate of the Kamiriithu People's Theatre in Kenya / I Will Marry When I Want / [Formal Strategies and Social Commentary in His Plays] / Hegemony Rests with the Audience / [Form, Content, and Context in Femi Osofisan's Drama] / [The Theatre of Femi Osofisan] / African Drama: A Chronology. Biodun Jeyifo -- Jane Plastow -- Lloyd W. Brown -- C. L. Innes -- Vincent O. Odamtten -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Oliver Lovesey -- Femi Osofisan -- Sandra Richards -- Abiola Irele -- Chris Dunton --
0393975290 (pbk.)
2001044667
African drama (English)
African drama (English)--History and criticism.
Theater--Africa.
Africa--Drama.
PR9347 / .M63 2002
822.008/096