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Syncretic arenas : essays on postcolonial African drama and theatre for Esiaba Irobi /
This collection in part examines the legacy of the consummate Nigerian stage artist and scholar, Esiaba Irobi (1960-2010). Poems, tributes, and studies celebrate Irobi's significance as actor, play wright, director, poet, and theatre theorist. Irobi's life, temper, times, and career are in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2014.
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| Colección: | Cross/cultures ;
177. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; PART ONE; Esiaba Irobi: The Tragedy of Exile; Esiaba Irobi: A Personal Note; Esiaba Irobi and His Muse; Remembering Esiaba Irobi at the International Research Centre ""Interweaving Performance Cultures"" in Berlin, 2009-2010; Esiaba Irobi: Death Does Not Kill a Song; On My Birthday; Omonla: Your Like Will Never Be There Again
- 7 Prose Poems/Haikus; Half a Century Death; Madding Crowd; Seven Stations of the Cross.
- Esiaba Irobi's Legacy: Theory and Practice of Postcolonial Performance Between Soyinka and Clark: The Dynamics of Influence on Esiaba Irobi's Nwokedi; Eclipsed Visions: Esiaba Irobi Interviewed; ESIABA ALONE AND IN COMPANY: A PHOTO GALLERY; PART TWO; Theatre and Modernization in the First Age of Globalization: The Cairo Opera House; Autobiography as Counter-Memory in The Orange Earth of Adam Small; Directing Politics: Soyinkan Parallels in the Works of Uganda's Robert Serumaga; Afrika Cultural Centre: Phoenix Under Apartheid and Burnt Ember Under Democracy?
- The Anxiety of Class in Kenyan Drama: A Reading of Boy's Benta and Sibi-Okumu's Role PlayA Heritage of Violence: Paradoxes of Freedom and Memory in Recent South African Play-Texts; African Drama and the Construction of an Indigenous Cultural Identity: An Examination of Four Major Nigerian Plays; The Creative Development, Importance, and Dramaturgy of Duro Ladipo's Ọba Kò So; Critical Responses: The Evolution of the Theatre Critic in South Africa; ""I want to dialogue"": Chief Muraina Oyelami Talking Oṣogbo and Beyond; Notes on Contributors; Index.