Nigerian Theatre in English
Author: Chris Dunton
Publisher: Bowker-Saur
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 384
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Author: Chris Dunton
Publisher: Bowker-Saur
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Yemi Ogunbiyi
Publisher: Lagos : Nigeria Magazine
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 548
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ousmane Diakhate
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 1136359494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow 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.
Author: Iremhokiokha Peter Ukpokodu
Publisher: Mellen University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is a study of Nigerian drama from the eve of independence to the 1980s with supportive materials from Nigeria's socio-political history. It examines the appropriateness and usage of the term Nigerian Drama and sets limits on its meaning. It also looks at what influences the Negritude movement and independence had on Nigerian drama, and why it is important to study Nigerian drama of socio-political concern. It examines pre-Colonial Nigeria, the style of politics and electioneering that marked the first Republic, the Marxist phenomenon in drama, the effects of the civil war, and the drama that resulted. It includes play synopses, and biographies of playwrights.
Author: Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-11
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 1136119000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.
Author: Martin Banham
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780253215390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributions to this volume in the African Theatre series make clear that the role of women in the theatre across the continent has changed as control is mainly held by literate elites and women's traditional standing has been lost to men.
Author: Joel Adeyinka Adedeji
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 190
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Awam Amkpa
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-06
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1134381336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial contests over identity, power and culture through the prism of theatre. The struggles it describes unfolded in two cultural settings separated by geography, but bound by history in a common web of colonial relations spun by the imperatives of European modernity. In post-imperial England, as in its former colony Nigeria, the colonial experience not only hybridized the process of national self-definition, but also provided dramatists with the language, imagery and frame of reference to narrate the dynamics of internal wars over culture and national destiny happening within their own societies. The author examines the works of prominent twentieth-century Nigerian and English dramatists such as Wole Soyinka, Femi Osofisan, Davd Edgar and Caryl Churchill to argue that dramaturgies of resistance in the contexts of both Nigerian as well as its imperial inventor England, shared a common allegiance to what he describes as postcolonial desires. That is, the aspiration to overcome the legacies of colonialism by imagining alternative universes anchored in democratic cultural pluralism. The plays and their histories serve as filters through which Ampka illustrates the operation of what he calls 'overlapping modernities' and reconfigures the notions of power and representation, citizenship and subjectivity, colonial and anticolonial nationalisms and postcoloniality. The dramatic works studied in this book embodied a version of postcolonial aspirations that the author conceptualises as transcending temporal locations to encompass varied moments of consciousness for progressive change, whether they happened during the hey day of English imperialism in early twentieth-century Nigeria, or in response to the exclusionary politics of the Conservative Party in Thatcherite England. Theatre and Postcolonial Desires will be essential reading for students and researchers in the areas of drama, postcolonial and cultural studies.
Author: Martin Banham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-08-04
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521411394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive alphabetical guide to theatre in Africa and the Caribbean: national essays and entries on countries and performers.
Author: Gareth Griffiths
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-19
Total Pages: 531
ISBN-13: 1317895843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is an introduction to the history of English writing from East and West Africa drawing on a range of texts from the slave diaspora to the post-war upsurge in African English language and literature from these regions.