An Introduction To Post Colonial Theatre

Author : Brian Crow,Chris Banfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052156722X

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An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theatre by Brian Crow,Chris Banfield Pdf

In this book Brian Crow and Chris Banfield provide an introduction to post-colonial theatre by concentrating on the work of major dramatists from the Third World and subordinated cultures in the first world. Crow and Banfield consider the plays of such writers as Wole Soyinka and Athol Fugard and his collaborators from Africa; Derek Walcott from the West Indies; August Wilson and Jack Davis, who write from and about the experience of Black communities in the USA and Australia respectively; and Badal Sircar and Girish Karnad from India. Although these dramatists reflect diverse cultures and histories, they share the common condition of cultural subjection or oppression, which has shaped their theatres. Each chapter contains an informative list of primary source material and further reading about the dramatists. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of theatre and cultural history.

Author : Helen Gilbert,Joanne Tompkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134876990

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Post-Colonial Drama by Helen Gilbert,Joanne Tompkins Pdf

Post-Colonial Drama is the first full-length study to address the ways in which performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects of imperialism. It brings to bear the latest theoretical approaches from post-colonial and performance studies to a range of plays from Australia, Africa, Canada, New Zealand, the Caribbean and other former colonial regions. Some of the major topics discussed in Post-Colonial Drama include: * the interactions of post-colonial and performance theories * the post-colonial re-stagings of language and history * the specific enactments of ritual and carnival * the theatrical citations of the post-colonial body Post-Colonial Drama combines a rich intersection of theoretical approaches with close attention to a wide range of performance texts.

Author : Helen Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136218248

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Postcolonial Plays by Helen Gilbert Pdf

This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and previously unpublished texts, all dealing with imperialism and its aftermath. It includes work from Canada, the Carribean, South and West Africa, Southeast Asia, India, New Zealand and Australia. A general introduction outlines major themes in postcolonial plays. Introductions to individual plays include information on authors as well as overviews of cultural contexts, major ideas and performance history. Dramaturgical techniques in the plays draw on Western theatre as well as local performance traditions and include agit-prop dialogue, musical routines, storytelling, ritual incantation, epic narration, dance, multimedia presentation and puppetry. The plays dramatize diverse issues, such as: *globalization * political corruption * race and class relations *slavery *gender and sexuality *media representation *nationalism

Author : Awam Amkpa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134381333

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Theatre and Postcolonial Desires by Awam Amkpa Pdf

This 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 : Christopher B. Balme
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198184441

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Decolonizing the Stage by Christopher B. Balme Pdf

A 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.

Author : Helen Gilbert
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106016116581

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(Post) Colonial Stages by Helen Gilbert Pdf

Author : Mark Fortier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781134523641

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Theory/Theatre by Mark Fortier Pdf

This is a new and enlarged edition of Mark Fortier's very successful and widely used essential text for students. Theory/Theatre provides a unique and engaging introduction to literary theory as it relates to theatre and performance. Fortier lucidly examines current theoretical approaches, from semiotics, poststructuralism, through cultural materialism, postcolonial studies and feminist theory. This new edition includes: * More detailed explanation of key ideas * New 'Putting it into practice' sections at the end of each chapter so you can approach performances from specific theoretical perspectives * Annotated further reading section and glossary. Theory/Theatre is still the only study of its kind and is invaluable reading for beginning students and scholars of performance studies.

Author : Helen Gilbert
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0415164486

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Postcolonial Plays by Helen Gilbert Pdf

This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and previously unpublished texts, all dealing with imperialism and its aftermath. It includes work from Canada, the Carribean, South and West Africa, Southeast Asia, India, New Zealand and Australia. A general introduction outlines major themes in postcolonial plays. Introductions to individual plays include information on authors as well as overviews of cultural contexts, major ideas and performance history. Dramaturgical techniques in the plays draw on Western theatre as well as local performance traditions and include agit-prop dialogue, musical routines, storytelling, ritual incantation, epic narration, dance, multimedia presentation and puppetry. The plays dramatize diverse issues, such as: *globalization * political corruption * race and class relations *slavery *gender and sexuality *media representation *nationalism

Author : Nandi Bhatia
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472024629

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Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance by Nandi Bhatia Pdf

Despite its importance to literary and cultural texts of resistance, theater has been largely overlooked as a field of analysis in colonial and postcolonial studies. Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance seeks to address that absence, as it uniquely views drama and performance as central to the practice of nationalism and anti-colonial resistance. Nandi Bhatia argues that Indian theater was a significant force in the struggle against oppressive colonial and postcolonial structures, as it sought to undo various schemes of political and cultural power through its engagement with subjects derived from mythology, history, and available colonial models such as Shakespeare. Bhatia's attention to local histories within a postcolonial framework places performance in a global and transcultural context. Drawing connections between art and politics, between performance and everyday experience, Bhatia shows how performance often intervened in political debates and even changed the course of politics. One of the first Western studies of Indian theater to link the aesthetics and the politics of that theater, Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance combines in-depth archival research with close readings of dramatic texts performed at critical moments in history. Each chapter amplifies its themes against the backdrop of specific social conditions as it examines particular dramatic productions, from The Indigo Mirror to adaptations of Shakespeare plays by Indian theater companies, illustrating the role of theater in bringing nationalist, anticolonial, and gendered struggles into the public sphere. Nandi Bhatia is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.

Author : Lokangaka Losambe,Devi Sarinjeive
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1919876065

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Pre-colonial and Post-colonial Drama and Theatre in Africa by Lokangaka Losambe,Devi Sarinjeive Pdf

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.

Author : Clive Barker,Simon Trussler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998-04-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521597293

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New Theatre Quarterly 52: Volume 13, Part 4 by Clive Barker,Simon Trussler Pdf

Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet to question dramatic assumptions.

Author : Rebecca Weaver-Hightower,Peter Hulme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134747344

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Postcolonial Film by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower,Peter Hulme Pdf

Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from postcolonial countries around the globe. In the mid twentieth century, the political reality of resistance and decolonization lead to the creation of dozens of new states, forming a backdrop to films of that period. Towards the century’s end and at the dawn of the new millennium, film continues to form a site for interrogating colonization and decolonization, though against a backdrop that is now more neo-colonial than colonial and more culturally imperial than imperial. This volume explores how individual films emerged from and commented on postcolonial spaces and the building and breaking down of the European empire. Each chapter is a case study examining how a particular film from a postcolonial nation emerges from and reflects that nation’s unique postcolonial situation. This analysis of one nation’s struggle with its coloniality allows each essay to investigate just what it means to be postcolonial.

Author : Sherry Simon,Paul St-Pierre
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780776605241

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Changing the Terms by Sherry Simon,Paul St-Pierre Pdf

This volume explores the theoretical foundations of postcolonial translation in settings as diverse as Malaysia, Ireland, India and South America. Changing the Terms examines stimulating links that are currently being forged between linguistics, literature and cultural theory. In doing so, the authors probe complex sequences of intercultural contact, fusion and breach. The impact that history and politics have had on the role of translation in the evolution of literary and cultural relations is investigated in fascinating detail. Published in English.

Author : Ato Quayson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108830980

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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature by Ato Quayson Pdf

Provides a new way of reading Western tragedy alongside texts from the postcolonial world so as to cross-illuminate each other.

Author : Graham Huggan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191662423

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The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies by Graham Huggan Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised into five cross-referenced sections, 'The Imperial Past', 'The Colonial Present', 'Theory and Practice', 'Across the Disciplines', and 'Across the World'. The chapters offer both country-specific and comparative approaches to current issues, offering a wide range of new and interesting perspectives. The Handbook reflects the increasingly multidisciplinary nature of postcolonial studies and reiterates its continuing relevance to the study of both the colonial past, in its multiple manifestations, and the contemporary globalized world. Taken together, these essays, the dialogues they pursue, and the editorial comments that surround them constitute nothing less than a blueprint for the future of a much-contested but intellectually vibrant and politically engaged field.