Toufann

Author : Martin Banham,James Morel Gibbs,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0253214580

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African Theatre by Martin Banham,James Morel Gibbs,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan Pdf

This second annual volume in the African Theatre series focuses on the intersection of politics and theatre in Africa today. Topics include the remarkable collaboration between Horse and Bamboo, a puppet theatre company based in the United Kingdom, and Nigerian playwright Sam Ukala that was inspired by the infamous execution of Nigerian playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni activists; the plays of Femi Osofisan; and plays by Ghanaian playwrights Joe de Graft and Mohammed Ben-Abdallah. African Theatre features the work of Mauritian playwright Dev Virahsawmy and includes an interview with him, reviews of an English production of his play, Toufann, as well as the translated playscript. Reports of workshops and conferences, reviews, and news of the year in African theatre make this volume a valuable resource for anyone interested in current issues in African drama and performance.

Author : Sandra Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350035751

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Shakespeare in the Global South by Sandra Young Pdf

Contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare's plays have brought into sharp focus the legacies of slavery, racism and colonial dispossession that still haunt the global South. Looking sideways across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to nontraditional centres of Shakespeare practice, Shakespeare in the Global South explores the solidarities generated by contemporary adaptations and their stories of displacement and survival. The book takes its lead from innovative theatre practice in Mauritius, North India, Brazil, post-apartheid South Africa and the diasporic urban spaces of the global North, to assess the lessons for cultural theory emerging from the new works. Using the 'global South' as a critical frame, Sandra Young reflects on the vocabulary scholars have found productive in grappling with the impact of the new iterations of Shakespeare's work, through terms such as 'creolization', 'indigenization', 'localization', 'Africanization' and 'diaspora'. Shakespeare's presence in the global South invites us to go beyond familiar orthodoxies and to recognize the surprising affinities felt across oceans of difference in time and space that allow Shakespeare's inventiveness to be a part of the enchanting subversions at play in contemporary theatre's global currents.

Author : Roshni Mooneeram
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Creole dialects, French
ISBN : 9789042026230

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From Creole to Standard by Roshni Mooneeram Pdf

Mooneeram gives a fascinating account of the unique history of the national language of Mauritius--creole--and the process of standardization that it is undergoing. He focuses on the work of the author Dev Virahsawmy, who, through his Shakespeare translations, is an active agent in the standardization of Mauritian creole.

Author : Dev Virahsawmy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Islands
ISBN : 1904718000

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Toufann by Dev Virahsawmy Pdf

Computer genius Prospero and his daughter Kordelia watch as a ship is mysteriously wrecked on their island. On board are their enemies from the past - King Lir, his brother Edmon and Prospero's brother Yago. With the help of the robot Aryel and his amazing video projections it seems that Prospero will take his revenge and marry Kordelia to the King's son Ferjinand. But the young people have different ideas. Also on the ship are Kaspalto and Dammarro, the traditional clowns of Mauritian culture, who are set to have fun on the magical island where the sega music is constant and even the coconuts seem to have whisky in them!

Author : Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn,Vera Alexander
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : East Indian diaspora
ISBN : 3825892107

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Peripheral Centres, Central Peripheries by Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn,Vera Alexander Pdf

Prominent scholars in literary and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, media studies, theatre production, and translation challenge the centre-periphery dichotomy used as a paradigm for relations between colonizers and their erstwhile subjects in this collection of critical interventions. Focussing on India and its diaspora(s) in western industrialized nations and former British colonies, this volume engages with topics of centrality and/or peripherality, particularly in the context of Anglophone Indian writing; the Indian languages; Indian film as art and popular culture; cross-cultural Shakespeare; diasporic pedagogy; and transcultural identity.

Author : Robert Fraser,Mary Hammond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230289116

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Books Without Borders, Volume 1 by Robert Fraser,Mary Hammond Pdf

Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world.

Author : Françoise Lionnet,Shu-mei Shih
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822386643

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Minor Transnationalism by Françoise Lionnet,Shu-mei Shih Pdf

Minor Transnationalism moves beyond a binary model of minority cultural formations that often dominates contemporary cultural and postcolonial studies. Where that model presupposes that minorities necessarily and continuously engage with and against majority cultures in a vertical relationship of assimilation and opposition, this volume brings together case studies that reveal a much more varied terrain of minority interactions with both majority cultures and other minorities. The contributors recognize the persistence of colonial power relations and the power of global capital, attend to the inherent complexity of minor expressive cultures, and engage with multiple linguistic formations as they bring postcolonial minor cultural formations across national boundaries into productive comparison. Based in a broad range of fields—including literature, history, African studies, Asian American studies, Asian studies, French and francophone studies, and Latin American studies—the contributors complicate ideas of minority cultural formations and challenge the notion that transnationalism is necessarily a homogenizing force. They cover topics as diverse as competing versions of Chinese womanhood; American rockabilly music in Japan; the trope of mestizaje in Chicano art and culture; dub poetry radio broadcasts in Jamaica; creole theater in Mauritius; and race relations in Salvador, Brazil. Together, they point toward a new theoretical vocabulary, one capacious enough to capture the almost infinitely complex experiences of minority groups and positions in a transnational world. Contributors. Moradewun Adejunmobi, Ali Behdad, Michael Bourdaghs, Suzanne Gearhart, Susan Koshy, Françoise Lionnet, Seiji M. Lippit, Elizabeth Marchant, Kathleen McHugh, David Palumbo-Liu, Rafael Pérez-Torres, Jenny Sharpe, Shu-mei Shih , Tyler Stovall

Author : Martin Banham,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan,Jane Plastow
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 025333599X

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African Theatre in Development by Martin Banham,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan,Jane Plastow Pdf

"A truly worthwhile resource in a growing field of research--the theater and drama of Africa--this volume collects ten essays about theater practice, publications, and productions; in-depth reviews of 17 books; and a new play." --Choice "... a 'must-have' for anybody interested in issues relating to theatre and development in Africa.... a pioneering effort... " --H-Net Reviews Art as a tool, weapon, or shield? This compelling issue and others are explored in this diverse collection of intriguing perspectives on African theatre in development. Also here: strategies in staging, propaganda, and mass education, and a discussion of the playwright Alemseged Tesfai's career in service to Eritrean liberation.

Author : Laura Di Michele
Publisher : Liguori Editore Srl
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8820738325

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Shakespeare by Laura Di Michele Pdf

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139451499

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A History of Theatre in Africa by Martin Banham Pdf

This 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.

Author : Vijay Mishra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134096923

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The Literature of the Indian Diaspora by Vijay Mishra Pdf

Exploring the work of key writers from across the globe, this significant contribution to diaspora theory constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora.

Author : Jane Plastow,Martin Banham
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781847010803

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Shakespeare in and Out of Africa by Jane Plastow,Martin Banham Pdf

This volume takes as its starting point an interrogation of the African contributions to the Globe to Globe festival staged in London in 2012, where 37 Shakespeare productions were offered, each from a different nation. Five African companies were invited to perform and there are articles on four of these productions, examining issues of interculturalism, postcolonialism, language, interpretation and reception. The contributors are both Shakespeare and African theatre scholars, promoting discourse from a range of geographical and cultural perspectives. A critical debate about the process of the Globe to Globe festival is initiated in the form of a discussion article featuring some of its directors and actors. Two further articles look at Shakespeare productions made purely for Africa, from Mauritius and Cape Verde, and leading Nigerian playwright and cultural commentator Femi Osofisan provides an overview article examining Shakespeare in Africa in the 21st century. The playscript in this volume of African Theatre is Femi Osofisan's Wesoo, Hamlet or the Resurrection of Hamlet. Volume Editor: JANE PLASTOW Series Editors: Martin Banham, Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies, University of Leeds; James Gibbs, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of the West of England; Femi Osofisan, Professor of Drama at the University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds; Yvette Hutchison, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick

Author : Anne Collett,Russell McDougall,Sue Thomas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319415161

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Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather by Anne Collett,Russell McDougall,Sue Thomas Pdf

This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons, collectively understood as “tropical weather.” Historically, literature has drawn upon the natural world for its store of symbolic language and technical device, making use of violent storms in the form of plot, drama, trope, and image in order to highlight their relationship to the political, social, and psychological realms of human affairs. Charting this relationship through writers such as Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Gisèle Pineau, and other writers from places like Australia, Japan, Mauritius, the Caribbean, and the Philippines, this ground-breaking collection of essays illuminates the specificities of the ways local, national, and regional communities have made sense and even relied upon the literary to endure the devastation caused by deadly tropical weather.

Author : Ananya Jahanara Kabir,Deanne Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521827310

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Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages by Ananya Jahanara Kabir,Deanne Williams Pdf

A collection of original essays exploring the intersections between medieval and postcolonial studies.

Author : YCT Expert Team
Publisher : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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2024-25 NTA UGC-NET/JRF English Solved Papers by YCT Expert Team Pdf

2024-25 NTA UGC-NET/JRF English Solved Papers