Vision Of Change In African Drama

Author : Sola Adeyemi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527537965

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Vision of Change in African Drama by Sola Adeyemi Pdf

Fémi Òsófisan is a major dramatist from Nigeria who experiments with forms and theatrical traditions. This book focuses on his development as a dramatist and his contribution to world drama as a postcolonial African writer whose major preoccupation has been to question the colonial and postcolonial issues of identity in theatre, literature and performance. The volume explores how Òsófisan exploits his Yorùbá heritage in his drama and the performances of his plays by reading new meanings into popular mythology, and by re-writing history to comment on contemporary social and political issues. Òsófisan has often introduced new motifs and narratives to energise dramatic performances in Nigeria and globally, and this text discusses developments in his theatre practices in the context of changing cultural trends.

Author : Tim Prentki,Ananda Breed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000177077

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The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance by Tim Prentki,Ananda Breed Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond. These volumes offer insights from within and beyond the sphere of English-speaking scholarship, curated by regional experts in applied performance. The reader will gain an understanding of some of the dominant preoccupations of performance in specified regions, enhanced by contextual framing. From the dis(h)arming of the human body through dance in Colombia to clowning with dementia in Australia, via challenges to violent nationalism in the Balkans, transgender performance in Pakistan and resistance rap in Kashmir, the essays, interviews and scripts are eloquent testimony to the courage and hope of people who believe in the power of art to renew the human spirit. Students, academics, practitioners, policy-makers, cultural anthropologists and activists will benefit from the opportunities to forge new networks and develop in-depth comparative research offered by this bold, global project.

Author : Hazel Barnes,Carol Beck Carter,Warren Nebe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527578876

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Innovative Methods for Applied Drama and Theatre Practice in African Contexts by Hazel Barnes,Carol Beck Carter,Warren Nebe Pdf

This book, based on components of Drama for Life, addresses the subject of “innovative methods for applied drama and theatre practice in African contexts”. It does so by providing chapters that share the rich, multilayered, and reflexive work that has taken place at Drama for Life from 2008 to the present day. It invites the reader to learn from the experiences of Drama for Life as shared by the authors, understand the role it has played and continues to play in advocating for, and extending the work of, Applied Drama and Theatre practice, and engage in critical, dialogical spaces to examine and interrogate current debates and practices in the field of Applied Drama and Theatre. The volume is invaluable for anyone interested in the extensive body of work generated by Drama for Life and its innovative approaches to learning and teaching, as well as performing arts practitioners, artists, teachers, people in community development and service work, and anyone involved in researching Applied Drama and Theatre practice, particularly in an African context, but also globally.

Author : Tiziana Morosetti,Osita Okagbue
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Emmanuel Ngwang,Kenneth Usongo
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498538114

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Art and Political Thought in Bole Butake by Emmanuel Ngwang,Kenneth Usongo Pdf

The book Art and Political Thought in Bole Butake, through a pluralist critical approach, interrogates Butake’s major creative works—Lake God, And Palm Wine Will Flow, The Survivors, Shoes and Four Men in Arms, Dance of the Vampires and The Rape of Michelle —mainly in terms of their political underpinnings and cultural signification. The intention is to place his drama within the socio-political matrix of Cameroon and demonstrate the topicality of the issues of governance, marginalization, and corruption in Cameroon or Africa that Butake consistently foregrounds in his creative works. The study opens with an overview of the historical and social milieu that feeds Butake’s imagination and the introduction is followed by an interview of the playwright in which he explains his mission as a writer. The next two chapters appraise the political symbolism of Butake’s plays and chapter five undertakes a comparison of the colonial legacy and the culture of corruption in Butake’s Lake God and The Rape ofMichelle. Women in Butake’s imaginative universe play a non-negligible role in change. They are portrayed as political and social activists in their challenge to autocratic rule. This is the leitmotif of chapter six, which highlights the contribution of women towards political change in Cameroon. In chapters seven and eight, the focus is on articulating the cultural signification of Butake’s plays in terms of political change. Concomitantly, these chapters also demonstrate Butake’s seamless incorporation of elements of oral literature in his drama, as he interpolates proverbs, divinations and other elements of orality in his work. Chapter nine of the book points out how Butake foregrounds the character traits of his protagonists against the backdrop of traditional Noni religion as well as Christianity. Thus, the bigotry and belligerence of both the Fon and Father Leo in Lake God, for example, are projected through a supernatural frame. The conclusion appraises the contemporaneity of Butake’s drama. His oeuvre continues to inspire so many people: from disenfranchised groups that see in his drama a path to reclaiming liberties and to critics who are challenged to hone their literary tools in the endeavor to situate his works within the dynamics of politics and culture in Africa.

Author : Nilgun Anadolu-Okur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136614231

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Contemporary African American Theater by Nilgun Anadolu-Okur Pdf

The Black Arts Movement was sparked by the Civil Rights movement and the urge to produce and revitalize functional, realistic, and holistic symbols to express African American creativity. When Larry Neal began his quest for a new dramatic form to epitomize African American self-determination he laid the foundation upon which his friends and compatriots-Amiri Baraka and Charles Fuller-would build. Expressing their individual protests through their writings, these artists soon united in their attack against Eurocentrism, which traditionally minimized or neglected the roles played by Africans and African Americans on the world stage. Their writings signaled a radical change in the form and content of African American writing, particularly drama. In this insightful examination of African American cultural history, the author explores the heart of the dramatic imagination of African Americans during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. The analysis of the works of these three important dramatists reveals the roots of an Afrocentric approach to the theater, and introduces a new methodology for exploring Afrocentrism that is particularly suited to classes in African American drama and literature.ࠁ

Author : Hilarious Ngwa Ambe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015074249866

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Change Aesthetics in Anglophone Cameroon Drama & Theatre by Hilarious Ngwa Ambe Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004414464

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Forays into Contemporary South African Theatre by Anonim Pdf

After the end of Apartheid, South African theatre was characterized by a remarkable process of constant aesthetic reinvention. This multivocal volume documents some of the various ways in which the “rainbow” nation has forged these innovative stage idioms.

Author : Lokangaka Losambe,Devi Sarinjeive
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Martin Banham,James Morel Gibbs,James Gibbs,Femi Osofisan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : African drama
ISBN : 0253215390

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

The 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 : Kanika Batra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136887536

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Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama by Kanika Batra Pdf

In this timely study, Batra examines contemporary drama from India, Jamaica, and Nigeria in conjunction with feminist and incipient queer movements in these countries. Postcolonial drama, Batra contends, furthers the struggle for gender justice in both these movements by contesting the idea of the heterosexual, middle class, wage-earning male as the model citizen and by suggesting alternative conceptions of citizenship premised on working-class sexual identities. Further, Batra considers the possibility of Indian, Jamaican, and Nigerian drama generating a discourse on a rights-bearing conception of citizenship that derives from representations of non-biological, non-generational forms of kinship. Her study is one of the first to examine the ways in which postcolonial dramatists are creating the possibility of a dialogue between cultural activism, women’s movements, and an emerging discourse on queer sexualities.

Author : Robert Landy,David T. Montgomery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350316348

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Theatre for Change by Robert Landy,David T. Montgomery Pdf

Building on Robert J. Landy's seminal text, Handbook of Educational Drama and Theatre, Landy and Montgomery revisit this richly diverse and ever-changing field, identifying some of the best international practices in Applied Drama and Theatre. Through interviews with leading practitioners and educators such as Dorothy Heathcote, Jan Cohen Cruz, James Thompson, and Johnny Saldaña, the authors lucidly present the key concepts, theories and reflective praxis of Applied Drama and Theatre. As they discuss the changes brought about by practitioners in venues such as schools, community centres, village squares and prisons, Landy and Montgomery explore the field's ability to make meaning of a vast range of personal and social issues through the application of drama and theatre.

Author : Cheryl Mwaria,Silvia Federici,Joseph McLaren
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050282220

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African Visions by Cheryl Mwaria,Silvia Federici,Joseph McLaren Pdf

The complexity of African society entering the 21st century necessitates an interdisciplinary examination of Africa's political, social, and cultural developments and challenges. Focusing on Social Movements and Literature, Social Change and Culture, the book brings together a wide range of essays by committed scholars, writers, and activists concerned with progressive approaches to Africa's dilemmas. Beginning with an overview by anthropologist Cheryl Mwaria, African Visions addresses such issues as structural adjustments, religious freedom, human rights, democratization, educational movements, and health care. Particular analyses consider intellectual property, student activism, and the AIDS epidemic. Mwaria, Federici, and McLaren also explore the way social and cultural questions have been treated in literary works and theoretical studies dealing with hybridity, sexual politics, literacy, socialist orientations, and language. Noted literary scholars Odun Balogun and Alamin Mazrui consider aspects of these issues. The collection also examines trends in literature, publishing, and theater in such countries as Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, and South Africa in relation to themes such as gender, popular culture, African novels, and protest. Highlighting articles by two of Africa's leading activist/writers Dennis Brutus of South Africa, stressing regional cooperation, and Ngûgî wa Thiong'o of Kenya, advocating African languages, African Visions avoids the pessimism associated with numerous 20th century studies. Brutus and Ngûgî consider the economic and cultural effects of globalization and the necessity for promoting self-determination. An essential resource for all scholars and students concerned with contemporary African life and culture.

Author : Philip U. Effiong
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0761817506

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In Search of a Model for African-American Drama by Philip U. Effiong Pdf

In Search of a Model for African-American Drama, is a comparative study of how these three dramatists seek and devise new models to address the specific conditions of Blacks in America. Each writer relies on a different approach, each powerful, yet apparently contradictory. The author examines the dramatists' work in detail, exploring common and contrasting themes and models.

Author : Phyllis Klotz,Smal Ndaba
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000806755

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Strategies for Survival at SIBIKWA 1988 – 2021 by Phyllis Klotz,Smal Ndaba Pdf

This book provides an engaging and contextualised insight into a South African township-based arts centre that has survived the vicissitudes of steady militarisation in townships during some of the worst years of apartheid as well as the exhilaration of a new democratic policy while attempting to circumnavigate different policies and funding dispensations. Sibikwa provides arts centres across the world and especially those in decolonising countries with strategies for survival in tumultuous times. This multi-disciplinary book maps and co-ordinates wider historical, political, and social contextual concerns and events with matters specific to a community-based east of Johannesburg and provides an exploration and analysis by experts of authentic theatre-making and performance, dance, indigenous music, arts in education and NGO governance. It has contemporary significance and raises important questions regarding inclusivity and transformation, the function and future of arts centres, community-based applied arts practices, creativity, and international partnerships. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance, indigenous music, dance, and South African history.