The Politics of Adaptation : Contemporary African Drama and Greek Tragedy.

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Van Weyenberg, Astrid
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2013.
Colección:Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English.
Temas:
Soyinka, Wole. > Bacchae of Euripides.
Osofisan, Femi. > Women of Owu.
African drama (English) > History and criticism.
Greek drama (Tragedy) > Adaptations > History and criticism.
Greek drama (Tragedy) > Appreciation > Africa.
African drama (English) > Greek influences.
Théâtre africain (anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Tragédie grecque > Appréciation > Afrique.
Théâtre africain (anglais) > Influence grecque.
DRAMA > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
African drama (English)
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Greek drama (Tragedy) > Appreciation
Africa
Adaptations
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • 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.

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