Download or read book Le th tre anglophone du Nigeria du Ghana et de la Sierra Leone written by Utudjian Saint-Andre Eliane and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En axant sa recherche sur le théâtre ouest-africain anglophone du XXe siècle, l'auteur de ce livre s'est assigné une tâche ambitieuse : relater l'histoire d'un siècle d'invention théâtrale en Afrique. Plongées dans un univers en crise ininterrompue, les sociétés ouest-africaines étudiées (Nigeria, Ghana et Sierra Leone), colonies britanniques pendant la première moitié du XXe siècle, accédèrent à l'indépendance entre 1957 et 1961. Cet ouvrage, fruit de longues années passées en Afrique et de contacts étroits avec les littératures du Ghana, du Nigeria et de Sierra Leone, interroge une trentaine de dramaturges et environ cent cinquante pièces de théâtre, pour y découvrir les expériences, les préoccupations et les aspirations d'Africains et d'Africaines, écrivains de théâtre, en général élevés dans des milieux traditionnels et immergés par la suite dans la société momderne. Ce livre trente de ressuciter l'aventure passionnante d'une élite, amoureuse de l'écriture, du verbe et de la scène. Ouvert à tous les courants, leur art a su inventer des formes neuves, hybrides, qui se fondent dans l'universel, mais conservent une forte spécificité africaine. Ces hommes et ces femmes, Nigéroans, Ghanéens et Sierra Leonais, ont surmonté tous les obstacles pour se consacrer avec enthousiasme et acharnement à l'écriture et au jeu dramatique, dans une langue, l'anglais, qui était rarement la leur au départ, mais qu'ils ont su manipuler et africaniser. En un siècle, et plus particulièrement de 1960 à 2000, ils ont donné naissance à un théâtre original, moderne et africain, accessible aussi bien à un public local et national qu'à un public étranger. Ouvert à tous les courants, leur art a su inventer des formes neuves, hybrides, qui se fondent dans l'universel, mais conservent une forte spécificité africaine.
Download or read book New Theatre in Francophone and Anglophone Africa written by Anne Fuchs and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is mainly a collection of papers presented at the 1995 Mandelieu conference in France which brought together artists and critics. The theme was that of contemporary African theatre in the former British and French empires. The contributions are of interest to those working in theatre generally and to those specialising in African performance, development studies and comparative literature. The varied topics include: popular theatre, Soyinka and France, syncretic theatre, comparisons between Anglophone and Francophone theatre in the Cameroon, censorship, development theatre and Sony Labou Tansi. There are also interview with Southern African writers and pieces of creative writing.
Download or read book Le th tre anglophone du Nigeria du Ghana et de la Sierra Leone written by Eliane Utudjian Saint-André and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Le th tre anglophone du Nigeria du Ghana et de la Sierra Leone written by Éliane Utudjian Saint-André and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Présente une trentaine de dramaturges et quelque cent cinquante pièces de théâtre. Avec des arrêts prolongés sur des auteurs comme James Ene Henshaw, Efua Sutherland, Joe C. de Graft, R. Sarif, etc.
Download or read book Globalisation Commodification and Cultural Production in Africa written by Kathrin Schmidt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with contemporary cultural production in Africa, focusing on theatre in Sierra Leone as main case study. The author provides coverage of, and insights into, such themes as cultural globalisation, commodification, the global creative economy, culture and development, international relations and contemporary cultural production in Sierra Leone within the context of local and global flows of people, media, images, technologies, finance and ideas. Combining the analysis of theatre in Sierra Leone and its aesthetics with its policy, structural and institutional context, this book highlights in much detail and nuance the interconnectedness between the micro- and the macro-levels of cultural production, between the local and the global, and between aesthetics, politics, policy, governance structures and institutions. This book links the particular findings from the author’s fieldwork to larger issues of contemporary local cultural production within the context of globalisation, commodification and decolonisation; adds a postcolonial perspective to existing theories and approaches to cultural production, management and policy, which is still largely missing from the existing discourse; and also contributes to addressing the gap in the knowledge about the context of contemporary cultural productions in diverse African contexts. This book will be particularly useful for both theatre scholars with an interest in the political economy of theatre and, more broadly, those seeking to understand the nuanced challenges and opportunities faced by policymakers, artists and arts managers to embrace the cultural and creative industries in this context. It also offers excellent insights for policymakers who wish to improve their understanding and interventions beyond superficial ‘best practice’ snippets and simplified ‘success stories’.
Download or read book Black African Literature in English 1987 1991 written by Bernth Lindfors and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black African Literature in English, 1987-1991 is the continuation of the 1982-1986 and earlier volumes compiled by Bernth Lindfors, and lists all the important works produced on Anglophone black African literature published between 1987 and 1991. Containing almost 9,000 entries - some of which are annotated to identify the authors discussed - it covers books and periodical articles, as well as providing selective coverage of other relevant sources of informed commentary. Also included are a very substantial number of articles which have appeared in African newspapers and magazines.
Download or read book Od n written by Cristina Boscolo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic ‘voice’ scans the rhythm of academic research, telling of the encounter with odún; then the voice falls silent. What is then raised is the dust of a forgotten academic debate on the nature of theatre and drama, and the following divergent standpoints of critical discourses bent on empowering their own vision, and defining themselves, rather, as counterdiscourses. This, the first part of the book: a metacritical discourse, on the geopolitics (the inherent power imbalances) of academic writing and its effects on odún, the performances dedicated to the gods, ancestors, and heroes of Yorùbá history. But odún: where is it? and what is it? And the ‘voice’? The many critical discourses have not really answered these questions. In effect, odún is many things. To enable the reader to see these, the study proceeds with an ‘intermezzo’: a frame of reference that sets odún, the festival, in its own historico-cultural ecoenvironment, identifying the strategies that inform the performance and constitute its aesthetic. It is a ‘classical’ yet, for odún, an innovative procedure. This interdisciplinary background equips the reader with the knowledge necessary to watch the performance, to witness its beauty, and to understand the ‘half words’ odún utters. And now the performance can begin. The ‘voice’ emerges one last time, to introduce the second section, which presents two case studies. The reader is led, day by day, through the celebrations –odún edì, Morèmi’s story, and its realization in performance; then confrontation by the masks of the ancestors duing odún egúngún (particularly as held in Ibadan). The meaning of odún becomes clearer and clearer. Odún is poetry, dances, masks, food, prayer. It is play (eré) and belief (ìgbàgbó). It is interaction between the players (both performers and spectators). It is also politics and power. It contains secrets and sacrifices. It is a reality with its own dimension and, above all, as the quintessential site of knowledge, it possesses the power to transform. In short, it is a challenge – a challenge that the present book and its voices take up.
Download or read book Theatre News written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research in African Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1- , spring 1970- , include "A Bibliography of American doctoral dissertations on African literature," compiled by Nancy J. Schmidt.
Download or read book MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Afro Asian Theatre Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fertile Crossings written by Pietro Deandrea and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In retracing some of the routes followed by West African literature in English over the course of the last three decades, this book employs an original multidimensional approach whereby the three main genres - narrative, poetry and drama - are considered in the light of their intricate web of fecund rapport and mutual influence. Authors such as Tutuola, Armah, Aidoo and Awoonor translated the fluid structures of orality into written prose, and consequently infused their works with poetic and dramatic resonance, thereby challenging the canonical dominance of social realism and paving the way for the birth of West African magical realism in Laing, Okri and Cheney-Coker. Starting in the 1970s, poetry on stage has become a mainstream genre in Ghana, thanks to performances by Okai, Anyidoho and Acquah. Boundaries between literary theatre and other genres have undergone a similar dissolution in the affirmation of the concept of 'total art' from Efua Sutherland to ben Abdallah, Osofisan and others. Fertile Crossings offers a study of these topics from various viewpoints, blending in-depth textual analysis with reflections on the political import of the works in question within the context of the present state of African societies, all supported by interviews with most of the authors.
Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Ousmane Diakhate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback for the first time this edition of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre series examines theatrical developments in Africa since 1945. Entries on thirty-two African countries are featured in this volume, preceded by specialist introductory essays on Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, History and Culture, Cosmology, Music, Dance, Theatre for Young Audiences and Puppetry. There are also special introductory general essays on African theatre written by Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka and the outstanding Congolese playwright, Sony Labou Tansi, before his untimely death in 1995. More up-to-date and more wide-ranging than any other publication, this is undoubtedly a major ground-breaking survey of contemporary African theatre.
Download or read book Black African Literature in English written by Bernth Lindfors and published by Detroit : Gale Research Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre Africa written by Don Rubin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book International African Bibliography 1973 1978 written by James Douglas Pearson and published by London : Mansell Pub. ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by the H.W. Wilson Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
