African Drama and Performance [Paperback]

African Drama and Performance is a collection of innovative and wide-ranging essays that bring conceptually fresh perspectives, from both renowned and emerging voices, to the study of drama, theatre, and performance in Africa. Topics range from studies of major dramatic authors and formal literary dramas to improvisational theatre and popular video films. South Africas Truth and Reconciliation Commissions are analyzed as a kind of social performance, and aspects of African performance in the diaspora are also considered. This dynamic volume underscores theatres role in postcolonial society and politics and reexamines performance as a form of high art and everyday social ritual.

Contributors are Akin Adesokan, Daniel Avorgbedor, Karin Barber, Nicholas Brown, Catherine Cole, John Conteh-Morgan, Johannes Fabian, Joachim Fiebach, Marie-Jos? Hourantier, Loren Kruger, Pius Ngandu Nkashama, Isidore Okpewho, Tejumola Olaniyan, Ato Quayson, Sandra L. Richards, Wole Soyinka, Dominic Thomas, and Bob W. White.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Tejumola Olaniyan and John Conteh-Morgan
Part 1. General Contexts
1. TBA
Wole Soyinka
2. Dimensions of Theatricality in Africa
Joachim Fiebach
3. Theater and Anthropology, Theatricality and Culture
Johannes Fabian
4. Pre-Texts and Intermedia: African Theater and the Question of History
Ato Quayson
Part 2. Intercultural Negotiations
5. Soyinka, Euripides, and the Anxiety of Empire
Isidore Okpewho
6. Antigone in the Land of the Incorruptible : Sylvain Bemba's Noces posthumes pour Santigone (Black Wedding Candles for Blessed- Antigone)
John Conteh-Morgan
7. Gestural Interpretation of the Occult in the Bin Kadi-So Adaptation of Macbeth
Marie-Jos? Hourantier
8. Yoruba Gods on the American Stage: August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Sandra L. Richards
Part 3. Radical Politics and Aesthetics
9. Femi Osofisan: The Form of Uncommon Sense
Tejumola Olaniyan
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