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The Politics of Adaptation : Contemporary African Drama and Greek Tragedy.
This book explores contemporary African adaptations of classical Greek tragedies. Six South African and Nigerian dramatic texts - by Yael Farber, Mark Fleishman, Athol Fugard, Femi Osofisan, and Wole Soyinka - are analysed through the thematic lens of resistance, revolution, reconciliation, and mour...
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Contemporary African Drama and Greek Tragedy; 1 African Antigones: ""Wherever the call for freedom is heard!"" Antigone's politics -- The choice of Antigone -- Antigone's representation -- Performing Antigone -- Beyond Antigone? -- Antigone's futures; 2 Ritual and Revolution: Wole Soyinka's Bacchae, a Yoruba Tragedy (Post)colonial Thebes -- Revolutionary Dionysus -- Sacrifice and the mythologization of history -- Yoruba and Greek: a complicated brotherhood -- The terms of comparison. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 3 Staging Transition:The Oresteia in Post-Apartheid South Africa Narrating the past -- Victims and perpetrators -- Theatre of witnessing andmourning -- Justice: definitions and demands -- The politics ofreconciliation -- The weight of the past4 Mourning Remains: Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu The mourning voice -- Memory and promise -- Gendered laments -- Re/membering the past -- The promise of change -- Mourning others; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index. | |
| 520 | |a This book explores contemporary African adaptations of classical Greek tragedies. Six South African and Nigerian dramatic texts - by Yael Farber, Mark Fleishman, Athol Fugard, Femi Osofisan, and Wole Soyinka - are analysed through the thematic lens of resistance, revolution, reconciliation, and mourning. The opening chapters focus on plays that mobilize Greek tragedy to inspire political change, discussing how Sophocles' heroine Antigone is reconfigured as a freedom fighter and how Euripides' Dionysos is transformed into a revolutionary leader. The later chapters shift the focus to plays that ex. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Osofisan, Femi. |t Women of Owu. |
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| 650 | 0 | |a African drama (English) |x Greek influences. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Théâtre africain (anglais) |x Histoire et critique. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Tragédie grecque |x Appréciation |z Afrique. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Théâtre africain (anglais) |x Influence grecque. | |
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