Culture And Identity In African And Caribbean Theatre

Author : Osita Okagbue,Osy A. Okagbue
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1905068603

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Culture and Identity in African and Caribbean Theatre by Osita Okagbue,Osy A. Okagbue Pdf

Because of a shared experience of European colonialism and trans-Atlantic slavery, issues of culture and identity are major concerns for African and Caribbean playwrights. Slavery and colonialism had involved systematic acts of cultural denigration, de-humanization and loss of freedom, which left imprints on the collective psyches of the colonized Africans and enslaved peoples of African descent in the Caribbean. Both experiences brought intense cultural and psychic dislocations which still impact in various ways on the lives of Africans and peoples of African descent around the world. African and Caribbean playwrights try to help their peoples regain their dignities by affirming their cultures, histories and identities. The book focuses on the similarities and differences between Caribbean theatre and the theatre of sub-Saharan Africa, showing how identities and cultures are negotiated and affirmed in each case.

Author : Osita Okagbue
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781912234264

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Culture and Identity in African and Caribbean Theatre by Osita Okagbue Pdf

What connects Africa and the Caribbean is trans-Atlantic slavery which transported numerous sons and daughters of Africa to the plantations of the New World in the service of Western European capitalism. Because of this shared experience of trans-Atlantic slavery and European colonialism, issues of culture and identity are major concerns for African and Caribbean playwrights. Slavery and colonialism had involved systematic acts of cultural denigration, de-humanisation and loss of freedom, which left imprints on the collective psyches of the colonised Africans and enslaved peoples of African descent in the Caribbean. Both experiences brought intense cultural and psychic dislocations which still impact in various ways on the lives of Africans and peoples of African descent around the world. African and Caribbean playwrights try to help their peoples regain their dignities by affirming their cultures, histories and identities. The book focuses on the similarities and differences between Caribbean theatre and the theatre of sub-Saharan Africa, showing how identities and cultures are negotiated and affirmed in each case.

Author : Tejumola Olaniyan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195357509

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Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance by Tejumola Olaniyan Pdf

This original work redefines and broadens our understanding of the drama of the English-speaking African diaspora. Looking closely at the work of Amiri Baraka, Nobel prize-winners Wole Soyinka and Derek Walcott, and Ntozake Shange, the author contends that the refashioning of the collective cultural self in black drama originates from the complex intersection of three discourses: Eurocentric, Afrocentric, and Post-Afrocentric. From blackface minstrelsy to the Trinidad Carnival, from the Black Aesthetic to the South African Black Consciousness theatres and the scholarly debate on the (non)existence of African drama, Olaniyan cogently maps the terrains of a cultural struggle and underscores a peculiar situation in which the inferiorization of black performance forms is most often a shorthand for subordinating black culture and corporeality. Drawing on insights from contemporary theory and cultural studies, and offering detailed readings of the above writers, Olaniyan shows how they occupy the interface between the Afrocentric and a liberating Post-Afrocentric space where black theatrical-cultural difference could be envisioned as a site of multiple articulations: race, class, gender, genre, and language.

Author : Karen Fog Olwig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135306120

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Global Culture, Island Identity by Karen Fog Olwig Pdf

Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a "global culture". The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by the notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and assertion of culture. It emphasizes the interplay between local and global cultures, and examines the importance of cultural display for peoples who have experienced the process of socioeconomic marginalization in the Western world.

Author : John Conteh-Morgan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253004581

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New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres by John Conteh-Morgan Pdf

John Conteh-Morgan explores the multiple ways in which African and Caribbean theatres have combined aesthetic, ceremonial, experimental, and avant-garde practices in order to achieve sharp critiques of the nationalist and postnationalist state and to elucidate the concerns of the francophone world. More recent changes have introduced a transnational dimension, replacing concerns with national and ethnic solidarity in favor of irony and self-reflexivity. New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres places these theatres at the heart of contemporary debates on global cultural and political practices and offers a more finely tuned understanding of performance in diverse diasporic networks.

Author : Kene Igweonu,Osita Okagbue
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443855921

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Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 1 by Kene Igweonu,Osita Okagbue Pdf

This book is part of a three-volume book-set published under the general title of Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre. Each of the three books in the set has a unique subtitle that works to better focus its content, and differentiates it from the other two volumes. The contributors’ backgrounds and global spread adequately reflect the international focus of the three books that make up the collection. The contributions, in their various ways, demonstrate the many advances and ingenious solutions adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling some of the challenges arising from the adverse colonial experience, as well as the “one-sided” advance of globalisation. The contributions attest to the thriving nature of African theatre and performance, which in the face of these challenges, has managed to retain its distinctiveness, while at the same time acknowledging, contesting, and appropriating influences from elsewhere into an aesthetic that is identifiably African. Consequently, the three books are presented as a comprehensive exploration of the current state of African theatre and performance, both on the continent and diaspora. Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 1: Diaspora Representations and the Interweaving of Cultures explores the idea that, in and from their various locations around the world, the plays of the African diaspora acknowledge and pay homage to the cultures of home, while simultaneously articulating a sense of their Africanness in their various inter-actions with their host cultures. Contributions in Diaspora Representations and the Interweaving of Cultures equally attest to the notion that the diaspora – as we see it – is not solely located outside of the African continent itself, but can be found in those performances in the continent that engage performatively with the West and other parts of the world in that process of articulating identity.

Author : Samuel Ravengai,Owen Seda
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030745943

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Theatre from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe by Samuel Ravengai,Owen Seda Pdf

The voices that are represented in this collection come from various parts of the world and express the views of practitioners and scholars who have all had first-hand experience working in Zimbabwean theatre from the last days of Rhodesia to Zimbabwe. The collection views the long continuum of developments in local theatre history as a case of the intrusive hegemonies that came with colonial Rhodesia as a conquest society, and localised identities in the form of the persistence of indigenous and syncretic popular forms. With time, all these came together to constitute the makings of a contested post-colony in contemporary theatre practice in Zimbabwe. The primary interest of scholars who are represented here is located at the intersection of political, cultural and performative discourses and the flow of Zimbabwean history. The focus, moreover, is not only on the history of performance cultures in postcolonial Zimbabwe - it extends its critical gaze to include the history of political ideas that gave rise to cultural contestation in the field of theatre and performance.

Author : Tiziana Morosetti,Osita Okagbue
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030439576

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The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race by Tiziana Morosetti,Osita Okagbue Pdf

The first comprehensive publication on the subject, this book investigates interactions between racial thinking and the stage in the modern and contemporary world, with 25 essays on case studies that will shed light on areas previously neglected by criticism while providing fresh perspectives on already-investigated contexts. Examining performances from Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa, China, Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacifi c islands, this collection ultimately frames the history of racial narratives on stage in a global context, resetting understandings of race in public discourse.

Author : Opiyo Mumma,Evan Mwangi,Christopher Odhiambo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029463499

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Orientations of Drama, Theatre, and Culture by Opiyo Mumma,Evan Mwangi,Christopher Odhiambo Pdf

Author : Kene Igweonu
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401200820

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Trends in Twenty-First-Century African Theatre and Performance by Kene Igweonu Pdf

Trends 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.

Author : Kathrin Schmidt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781003820574

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Globalisation, Commodification and Cultural Production in Africa by Kathrin Schmidt Pdf

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’.

Author : Kene Igweonu,Osita Okagbue
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443855105

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Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 3 by Kene Igweonu,Osita Okagbue Pdf

This book is part of a three-volume book-set published under the general title of Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre. Each of the three books in the set has a unique subtitle that works to better focus its content, and differentiates it from the other two volumes. The contributors’ backgrounds and global spread adequately reflect the international focus of the three books that make up the collection. The contributions, in their various ways, demonstrate the many advances and ingenious solutions adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling some of the challenges arising from the adverse colonial experience, as well as the “one-sided” advance of globalisation. The contributions attest to the thriving nature of African theatre and performance, which in the face of these challenges, has managed to retain its distinctiveness, while at the same time acknowledging, contesting, and appropriating influences from elsewhere into an aesthetic that is identifiably African. Consequently, the three books are presented as a comprehensive exploration of the current state of African theatre and performance, both on the continent and diaspora. Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 3: Making Space, Rethinking Drama and Theatre in Africa offers essays that seek to re-conceptualise notions of drama and theatre in Africa, and therefore redefine our understanding of the practice, role, and place they occupy in a constantly evolving African socio-cultural contexts. Contributions in Making Space, Rethinking Drama and Theatre in Africa range from essays that explore notions of space in performance, to those that challenge the perceived orthodoxy of conventional forms and approaches to theatre.

Author : Kene Igweonu,Osita Okagbue
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443859219

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Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 2 by Kene Igweonu,Osita Okagbue Pdf

This book is part of a three-volume book-set published under the general title of Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre. Each of the three books in the set has a unique subtitle that works to better focus its content and differentiates it from the other two volumes. The contributors’ backgrounds and global spread adequately reflect the international focus of the three books that make up the collection. The contributions, in their various ways, demonstrate the many advances and ingenious solutions adopted by African theatre practitioners in tackling some of the challenges arising from the adverse colonial experience, as well as the “one-sided” advance of globalisation. The contributions attest to the thriving nature of African theatre and performance, which in the face of these challenges, has managed to retain its distinctiveness, while at the same time acknowledging, contesting, and appropriating influences from elsewhere into an aesthetic that is identifiably African. Consequently, the three books are presented as a comprehensive exploration of the current state of African theatre and performance, both on the continent and diaspora. Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 2: Innovation, Creativity and Social Change contains essays that address performativity as a process, particularly in the context of theatre’s engagement with contemporary realities with the hope of instigating social change. The innovativeness of the examples explored within the book points to the ingenuity and adaptive capacity of African theatre in ways that engage indigenous forms in the service of contemporary realities. Contributions in Innovation, Creativity and Social Change explore forms such as Theatre for Development, community and applied theatre, and indigenous juridical performances, as well as the work of contemporary dramatists and performers who set out to instigate change in society.

Author : Rex M. Nettleford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173015347786

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Caribbean Cultural Identity by Rex M. Nettleford Pdf

This revised edition is a re-affirmation of the validity of that persistent quest by the Jamaican and Caribbean people for place and purpose in a globalised world of continuous change.

Author : Dennis Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780199574193

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The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance by Dennis Kennedy Pdf

An authoritative reference covering primarily actors, playwrights, directors, styles and movements, companies and organizations.