Download or read book Language Aesthetics of Modern African Drama written by Isaiah Ilo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this book is to initiate theoretical discussions on the popular subject of African literary language, and the thrust of the contribution, apart from theory-building, is the introduction of the Post-indiginist concept next to the well known essentialist and hybrid concepts. The study outlines a set of criteria for each aesthetic concept, so that literary analysis based on the criteria will verify whether or not they are adequate for understanding, explaining and describing African writers' language usage. It is expected that a language aesthetic theory in the African context may help in the study of individual writers' styles and equally address a neglect of descriptive studies in African literary scholarship.
Download or read book Modern African Drama Critical and Theoretical Approaches written by Damlègue Lare and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a contour of the literary theories and critical approaches in modern African drama. Theories are discussed against the backdrop of modern African drama and include Symbolism, Naturalism, Nativism, the quest for Indigenous Aesthetics, Oral Narratives, Narratology, Marxism, Cultural Materialism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Psycho-analytic criticism, New Historicism, Ecocriticism, Feminism, Postcolonialism and Intertextuality. The objective is to offer researchers and scholars of modern African drama a comprehensive approach of the discipline of African drama from theoretical perspective. Critical debates on the possibility of reading African drama with the lenses of contemporary literary theories have been controversial among critics of African literature. Some critics have been asserting that African drama should be theory-free in its intellectual and scholarly interpretation. Others opine that modern African drama should be analyzed within the mainstream of African literature alongside the novel and poetry. This book seeks to revert these views by pointing out the importance of theories in the interpretation and understanding of African drama.
Download or read book Aesthetics of Adaptation in Contemporary Nigerian Drama written by Gbemisola Adeoti and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Issues in African Theatre written by Ola Rotimi and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A project of the Department of Dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, which was founded by the late Ola Rotimi, one of Africa's finest dramatists, author of over a dozen play, theatre director, and Professor of Dramatic Arts. This collection of papers is the result of the dramatist's final creative years, and includes contributions from Rotimi himself as well as others from his department both from the older and younger generations. The essays are entitled: Attainment of Discovery: Efua Sutherland and the Evolution of Modern African Drama; Development of the Theatre of Radical Poetics in Nigeria; 'Each One Tell One'; Language as Praxis in Ola Rotimi and Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Sowande's Revolutionary Socio- Aesthetic Ideal; The Hidden Pursuaders: Nigerian Tele-Drama and Propaganda; The Performer and the Nigerian Copyright Act; The African Operetta: An Overview of Adam Fibersima's 'Edi Ke Marina'; and In Search of Community Theatre Audience.
Download or read book African Drama And Theatre written by Charles Kebaya and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Drama and Theatre: A Criticism, explores critical questions that scholars of African drama and theatre continue to grapple with. The contributors to this text investigate the developments of African drama and theatre from the Pre-colonial period to the Present. While paying attention to issues that characterize the practice of African drama and theatre in each historical period and with illustrations drawn from various parts of Africa, the contributors engage particular perspectives, theoretical and/or conceptual frameworks in their analyses. The result is a rich collection of essays that cover a wide range of topics such as the Concept and Nature of Traditional African drama and theatre, African Aesthetics in Traditional African drama and theatre, Re-appropriation of the African Aesthetic in Modern African drama, the Growth and Development of Kenyan drama and theatre, Theatre for Development in East Africa, and Minimalism as a theatrical strategy in Athol Fugard's plays. The essays herein reflect a well researched representation of what has and is taking place in drama and theatrical scenes in the African continent. It is a book whose insights can be brought to bear upon contemporary discourses on African drama and theatre beyond the confined boundaries of this text. About the Editors John Mugubi., PhD. is a seasoned scholar of Literature, Theatre Arts and Film at Kenyatta University. He holds a B.A. and M. A. from the University of Nairobi and a PhD from Kenyatta University. He has widely published in Literature, Theatre and Film. Charles Kebaya, M.A, holds a Master of Arts degree in Literature with a bias in Drama and Theatre Criticism and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Literature from Kenyatta University. Currently, Kebaya is working on his PhD Dissertation on drama and theatre. His research interests are in Postcoloniality in Literature, Drama and Theatre.
Download or read book Ola Rotimi s African Theatre written by Niyi Coker and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an exploration into the writing, cultural and theatrical aesthetics of African writer and director, Ola Rotimi. It is a quest and search for an authentic African esthetic that has been transformed by at least two centuries of the European colonization. This work focuses on the aesthetic dimensions of the Ori Olokun theatre under the artistic direction of Ola Rotimi. It reviews Ola Rotimi's vision and impact with the Ori Olokun Company, and his quest to formulate a truly authentic African theatre, void of the imported European sensibility and colonially inherited aesthetic. The unique creative achievement of Rotimi's work at the Ori Olokun theatre, is that it evolved out of the ivory towers of the University, an 'unfriendly' territory as far as the indigenous theatre is concerned. Ola Rotimi dedicated his art to exploring the traditional/indigenous artistic expressions of the Nigeria people at a point when the African aesthetic had completely lost ground to the European value system. Three of Rotimi's historical plays are analyzed to understand and locate his historical perspective. African theatre, an issue that has dominated African theatre for the past half century. His solution is that writers must 'tamper with the English language to temper it's Englishness'. Clearly, what makes Rotimi unique, is that he brings to his plays, the linguistic characteristics and nuances that are authentic to African people.
Download or read book African Theatre written by Martin Banham and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second annual volume in the African Theatre series focuses on the intersection of politics and theatre in Africa today. Topics include the remarkable collaboration between Horse and Bamboo, a puppet theatre company based in the United Kingdom, and Nigerian playwright Sam Ukala that was inspired by the infamous execution of Nigerian playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni activists; the plays of Femi Osofisan; and plays by Ghanaian playwrights Joe de Graft and Mohammed Ben-Abdallah. African Theatre features the work of Mauritian playwright Dev Virahsawmy and includes an interview with him, reviews of an English production of his play, Toufann, as well as the translated playscript. Reports of workshops and conferences, reviews, and news of the year in African theatre make this volume a valuable resource for anyone interested in current issues in African drama and performance.
Download or read book Prescriptive Anomalies in African Aesthetics the Case for a Language of Poetry and Drama written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Song written by Chris Nwamuo and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Drama Theatre written by Charles Kebaya and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The contributors to this text investigate the developments of African drama and theatre from the pre-colonial period to the present ... [in] a rich collection of essays that cover a wide range of topics such as the concept and nature of traditional African drama and theatre, African aesthetics in traditional African drama and theatre, re-appropriation of the African aesthetic in modern African drama, the growth and development of Kenyan drama and theatre, theatre for development in East Africa, and minimalism as a theatrical strategy in Athol Fugard's plays."--Back cover.
Download or read book Pre colonial and Post colonial Drama and Theatre in Africa written by Lokangaka Losambe and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays written from different critical perspectives, African playwrights demonstrate through their art that they are not only witnesses, but also consciences, of their societies.
Download or read book Modern African Drama written by Biodun Jeyifo and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern African Drama written by Biodun Jeyifo and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents eight twentieth-century plays from seven African countries, along with explanatory notes and over thirty background writings and works of criticism.
Download or read book Trends in Twenty First Century African Theatre and Performance written by Kene Igweonu and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trends in Twenty-First Century African Theatre and Performance is a collection of regionally focused articles on African theatre and performance. The volume provides a broad exploration of the current state of African theatre and performance and considers the directions they are taking in the 21st Century. It contains sections on current trends in theatre and performance studies, on applied/community theatre and on playwrights. The chapters have evolved out of a working group process, in which papers were submitted to peer-group scrutiny over a period of four years, at four international conferences. The book will be particularly useful as a key text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in non-western theatre and performance (where this includes African theatre and performance), and would be a very useful resource for theatre scholars and anyone interested in African performance forms and cultures.
Download or read book The Language of African Literature written by Edmund L. Epstein and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unprecedented anthology, some of the most prolific and widely read African novelists are analysed.
Download or read book The Language of Beauty in African Art written by Constantine Petridis and published by Art Institute of Chicago. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious publication centers indigenous perspectives on traditional artworks from Africa by focusing on the judgments and vocabularies of members of the communities who created and used them. It explores cross-cultural affinities spanning the African continent while respecting local contexts; it also documents an exhibition that is extraordinary in scope and scale. The project's overriding goal is to reconsider Western evaluations of these arts in both aesthetic and financial terms. The volume features nearly 300 works from collections around the world and from the important holdings of the Art Institute of Chicago. Although it emphasizes the sculptural legacy of sub-Saharan cultures from West and Central Africa, it also includes examples of artistic traditions associated with eastern and southern Africa as well as textiles and objects designed for domestic, ritual, and decorative functions.00Exhibition: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA (03.04. - 31.07.2022) / Art Institute of Chicago, USA (20.11.2022 - 27.02.2023).
Download or read book Syncretic Arenas written by Isidore Diala and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection in part examines the legacy of the consummate Nigerian stage artist and scholar, Esiaba Irobi (1960–2010). Poems, tributes, and studies cele¬brate Irobi’s significance as actor, play¬wright, director, poet, and theatre theorist. Irobi’s life, temper, times, and career are inextricably linked to the history, devel¬opment, concerns, and uses of drama and theatre in Africa. The contributions high¬light the evolution of autochthonous thea¬trical practices: the interaction between Western and indigenous African perfor¬mance traditions; colonial/postcolonial government policies and the mutations of drama and theatre (and critical commen¬tary); the tensions inherent in postcolonial conceptions of history, identity, nation¬hood, and articulations of alternative aes¬thetics, pedagogies, and epistemologies for postcolonial African theatre; staging African plays in the West; and the con-stituencies of the contemporary African playwright and director. The strength of these studies derives primarily from nuanced examinations of the concerns and careers of particular African playwrights; the history, offerings, and fortunes of particular theatrical arenas, and close explorations of specific performances and texts. The foregrounding of correspon¬dences in the dramaturgies and intellec¬tual ferment of the continent critically accentuates equally privileged regional, historical, and other crucial specificities. Situated in time and place while under¬scoring the political and intellectual inter¬sections of a shared history of colonial-ism, the contributions to Syncretic Arenas, individually and collectively, reveal the transformations and growing strengths of postcolonialism as an analytical strategy. Isidore Diala is Professor of African literature in the Department of English and Literary Studies at Abia State University, Uturu, and author of Esiaba Irobi’s Drama and the Postcolony: Theory and Practice of Postcolonial Performance (2013).
