Black Theater, Dance, and Ritual in South Africa
Author: Peter Larlham
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13:
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Black Theatre
Author: Paul Carter Harrison
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2002-11
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781439901151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn insider's view of Black theatres of the world and how they reflect their culture, concerns, and history.
Black Theatre
Author: Paul Carter Harrison
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2002-11-08
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1566399440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGenerating a new understanding of the past—as well as a vision for the future—this path-breaking volume contains essays written by playwrights, scholars, and critics that analyze African American theatre as it is practiced today.Even as they acknowledge that Black experience is not monolithic, these contributors argue provocatively and persuasively for a Black consciousness that creates a culturally specific theatre. This theatre, rooted in an African mythos, offers ritual rather than realism; it transcends the specifics of social relations, reaching toward revelation. The ritual performance that is intrinsic to Black theatre renews the community; in Paul Carter Harrison's words, it "reveals the Form of Things Unknown" in a way that "binds, cleanses, and heals."
Trends in Twenty-First-Century African Theatre and Performance
Author: Kene Igweonu
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9401200823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrends 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.
Theatre & Change in South Africa
Author: Geoffrey Davis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-04-27
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1134362978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1997. Can South African theatre continue to maintain its autonomy and exercise its critical role? Can one rethink form and find new content? Can a concept of post-protest theatre be developed? How might theatre contribute to post-apartheid soceity? These are just of the questions addressed in this book. The real and present difficulties South Africian theatre is facing, as well as possible future orientations, are clearly shown, at one of the most complex moments of political transition in the history of the South African society. The authors include contributions from playwrights, actors, visual artists, poets, directors, administrators, critics and theatre academics. Their comments and thoughts portray the active process of reflection and reappraisal, redefining their artistic and political aims, searching for new and vital theatrical forms.
Black South African Women
Author: Kathy Perkins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-01-16
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 1134673574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the lives of Black South African women. This collection represents the work of both female and male writers, including national and international award-winning playwrights. The collection includes six full-length and four one-act plays, as well as interviews with the writers, who candidly discuss the theatrical and political situation in the new South Africa. Written before and after apartheid, the plays present varying approaches and theatrical styles from solo performances to collective creations. The plays dramatise issues as diverse as: * women's rights * displacement from home * violence against women * the struggle to keep families together * racial identity * education in the old and new South Africa * and health care.
Opposing Apartheid on Stage
Author: Tyler Fleming
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 158046985X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA captivating account of an interracial jazz opera that took apartheid South Africa by storm and marked a turning point in the nation's cultural history.
A History of Theatre in Africa
Author: Martin Banham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-05-13
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1139451499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. The roots of African theatre are ancient and complex and lie in areas of community festival, seasonal rhythm and religious ritual, as well as in the work of popular entertainers and storytellers. Since the 1950s, in a movement that has paralleled the political emancipation of so much of the continent, there has also grown a theatre that comments back from the colonized world to the world of the colonists and explores its own cultural, political and linguistic identity. A History of Theatre in Africa offers a comprehensive, yet accessible, account of this long and varied chronicle, written by a team of scholars in the field. Chapters include an examination of the concepts of 'history' and 'theatre'; North Africa; Francophone theatre; Anglophone West Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Lusophone African theatre; Mauritius and Reunion; and the African diaspora.
Towards a Transcultural Future
Author: Gesellschaft für die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9789042017733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection has one central theoretical focus, viz. stock-taking essays on the present and future status of postcolonialism, transculturalism, nationalism, and globalization. These are complemented by 'special' angles of entry (e.g. 'dharmic ethics') and by considerations of the global impress of technology (African literary studies and the Internet). Further essays have a focus on literary-cultural studies in Australia (the South Asian experience) and New Zealand (ecopoetics; a Central European émigrée perspective on the nation; the unravelling of literary nationalism; transplantation and the trope of translation). The thematic umbrella, finally, covers studies of such topics as translation and interculturalism (the transcendental in Australian and Indian fiction; African Shakespeares; Canadian narrative and First-Nations story templates); anglophone / francophone relations (the writing and rewriting of crime fiction in Africa and the USA; utopian fiction in Quebec); and syncretism in post-apartheid South African theatre. Some of the authors treated in detail are: Janet Frame; Kapka Kassabova; Elizabeth Knox; Annamarie Jagose; Denys Trussell; David Malouf; Patrick White; Yasmine Gooneratne; Raja Rao; Robert Kroetsch; Thomas King; Chester Himes; Julius Nyerere; Ayi Kwei Armah; Léopold Sédar Senghor; Simon Njami; Abourahman Waberi; Lueen Conning; Nuruddin Farah; Athol Fugard; Frantz Fanon; Julia Kristeva; Shakespeare. The collection is rounded off by creative writing (prose, poetry, and drama) by Bernard Cohen, Jan Kemp, Vincent O'Sullivan, Andrew Sant, and Sujay Sood.
Decolonizing the Stage
Author: Christopher B. Balme
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780198184447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of post-colonial drama and theatre. It examines how dramatists from various societies have attempted to fuse the performance idioms of their traditions with the Western dramatic form, demonstrating how the dynamics of syncretic theatrical texts function in performance.
