Modern African drama : backgrounds and criticism / edited by Biodun Jeyifo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Norton critical editionPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, 2001.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 646 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0393975290 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.008/096 21
LOC classification:
  • PR9347 .M63 2002
Contents:
Fate of a Cockroach / Tawfik al-Hakim -- Intelligence Powder / Kateb Yacine -- Sizwe Bansi Is Dead / Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona -- Death and the King's Horseman / Wole Soyinka -- Collision of Altars / Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin -- The Dilemma of a Ghost / Ama Ata Aidoo -- I Will Marry When I Want / Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii -- Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels / Femi Osofisan -- On National Culture / Frantz Fanon -- Theatre in African Traditional Cultures: Survival Patterns / Wole Soyinka -- Enactments of Power: The Politics of Performance Space / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- The Reinvention of Theatrical Tradition / Biodun Jeyifo -- African Theatre in a Global Context / Don Rubin -- Dimensions of Theatricality in Africa / Joachim Fiebach -- Art as Tool, Weapon or Shield?: Arts for Development Seminar, Harare / David Kerr -- [Trends in the Drama of Tawfik al-Hakim] / Paul Starkey -- Introduction to "Fate of a Cockroach" and Other Plays / Denys Johnson-Davies --
[Philosophical and Psychological Themes in Fate of a Cockroach] / Richard Long -- [The Theatrical Carnivalesque in Intelligence Powder] / Bernard Aresu -- [Populist Aesthetics and Idioms in Kateb Yacine's Theatre] / Jacqueline Kaye and Abdelhamid Zoubir -- The Pragmatics and Aesthetics of Kateb Yacine's Theatre Practice / Kamal Salhi -- Introduction to Statements / Athol Fugard -- "Robert Zwelinzima Is Alive" / Russell Vandenbroucke -- [Artistic Ambivalence in Sizwe Bansi Is Dead] / Hilary Seymour -- The Statements Plays / Dennis Walder -- Author's Note to Death and the King's Horseman / Wole Soyinka -- Towards a True Theatre / Wole Soyinka -- The Fox's Dance: The Staging of Soyinka's Plays / Annemarie Heywood -- [Cultural Death and the King's Horseman] / Adebayo Williams -- Tribute to Wole Soyinka / Michael Etherton -- Author's Note to Collision of Altars / Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin -- Collision of Altars: Notes on History / Richard Pankhurst --
Art and Ideology in the Plays of Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin / Biodun Jeyifo -- [Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin and Ethiopian Reformist Theatre] / Jane Plastow -- [Oral Tradition in Dilemma of a Ghost] / Lloyd W. Brown -- [Motherhood in Ama Ata Aidoo's Plays] / C. L. Innes -- A Bird of the Wayside Sings / Vincent O. Odamtten -- Women in Cultural Work: The Fate of the Kamiriithu People's Theatre in Kenya / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- I Will Marry When I Want / Oliver Lovesey -- [Formal Strategies and Social Commentary in His Plays] / Femi Osofisan -- Hegemony Rests with the Audience / Sandra Richards -- [Form, Content, and Context in Femi Osofisan's Drama] / Abiola Irele -- [The Theatre of Femi Osofisan] / Chris Dunton -- African Drama: A Chronology.
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"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 / Tawfik al-Hakim -- Intelligence Powder / Kateb Yacine -- Sizwe Bansi Is Dead / Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona -- Death and the King's Horseman / Wole Soyinka -- Collision of Altars / Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin -- The Dilemma of a Ghost / Ama Ata Aidoo -- I Will Marry When I Want / Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii -- Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels / Femi Osofisan -- On National Culture / Frantz Fanon -- Theatre in African Traditional Cultures: Survival Patterns / Wole Soyinka -- Enactments of Power: The Politics of Performance Space / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- The Reinvention of Theatrical Tradition / Biodun Jeyifo -- African Theatre in a Global Context / Don Rubin -- Dimensions of Theatricality in Africa / Joachim Fiebach -- Art as Tool, Weapon or Shield?: Arts for Development Seminar, Harare / David Kerr -- [Trends in the Drama of Tawfik al-Hakim] / Paul Starkey -- Introduction to "Fate of a Cockroach" and Other Plays / Denys Johnson-Davies --

[Philosophical and Psychological Themes in Fate of a Cockroach] / Richard Long -- [The Theatrical Carnivalesque in Intelligence Powder] / Bernard Aresu -- [Populist Aesthetics and Idioms in Kateb Yacine's Theatre] / Jacqueline Kaye and Abdelhamid Zoubir -- The Pragmatics and Aesthetics of Kateb Yacine's Theatre Practice / Kamal Salhi -- Introduction to Statements / Athol Fugard -- "Robert Zwelinzima Is Alive" / Russell Vandenbroucke -- [Artistic Ambivalence in Sizwe Bansi Is Dead] / Hilary Seymour -- The Statements Plays / Dennis Walder -- Author's Note to Death and the King's Horseman / Wole Soyinka -- Towards a True Theatre / Wole Soyinka -- The Fox's Dance: The Staging of Soyinka's Plays / Annemarie Heywood -- [Cultural Death and the King's Horseman] / Adebayo Williams -- Tribute to Wole Soyinka / Michael Etherton -- Author's Note to Collision of Altars / Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin -- Collision of Altars: Notes on History / Richard Pankhurst --

Art and Ideology in the Plays of Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin / Biodun Jeyifo -- [Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin and Ethiopian Reformist Theatre] / Jane Plastow -- [Oral Tradition in Dilemma of a Ghost] / Lloyd W. Brown -- [Motherhood in Ama Ata Aidoo's Plays] / C. L. Innes -- A Bird of the Wayside Sings / Vincent O. Odamtten -- Women in Cultural Work: The Fate of the Kamiriithu People's Theatre in Kenya / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- I Will Marry When I Want / Oliver Lovesey -- [Formal Strategies and Social Commentary in His Plays] / Femi Osofisan -- Hegemony Rests with the Audience / Sandra Richards -- [Form, Content, and Context in Femi Osofisan's Drama] / Abiola Irele -- [The Theatre of Femi Osofisan] / Chris Dunton -- African Drama: A Chronology.

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