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Black theatre : ritual performance in the African diaspora /

An insider's view of Black theatres of the world and how they reflect their culture, concerns, and history.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harrison, Paul Carter, 1936-2021 (Editor ), Walker, Victor Leo, II (Editor ), Edwards, Gus (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2002.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Praise/word / Paul Carter Harrison
  • pt. 1. African roots. Roots in African drama and theatre / J.C. de Graft
  • The African heritage of African American art and performance / Babatunde Lawal
  • Agones : the constitution of a practice / Tejumola Olaniyan
  • What the twilight says : an overture / Derek Walcott
  • Caribbean narrative : carnival characters--in life and in the mind / Gus Edwards
  • Rebaptizing the world in our own terms : Black theatre and live arts in Britain / Michael McMillan and SuAndi
  • pt. 2. Mythology and metaphysics. The fourth stage : through the mysteries of Ogun to the origin of Yoruba tragedy / Wole Soyinka
  • The Candomblʹe and Eshu-Eleggua in Brazilian and Cuban Yoruba-based ritual / Marta Moreno Vega
  • Legba and the politics of metaphysics : the trickster in Black drama / Femi Euba
  • Art for life's sake : rituals and rights of self and other in the theatre of Aimʹe Cʹesaire / Keith L. Walker
  • Sycorax mythology / May Joseph
  • Conjuring as radical re/membering in the works of Shay Youngblood / Joni L. Jones
  • Archetype and masking in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's Dutchman / Victor Leo Walker II
  • pt. 3. Dramaturgical practice. The dramaturg's way : meditations on the cartographer at the crossroads / Deborah Wood Holton
  • Introduction to Moon marked and touched by sun / Sydnʹe Mahone
  • Kennedy's travelers in the American and African continuum / Paul K. Bryant-Jackson
  • Mojo and the sayso : a drama of Nommo that asks, "Is your mojo working?" / Andrea J. Nouryeh
  • Ritual poetics and rites of passage in Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf / Jean Young
  • pt. 4. Performance. Form and transformation : immanence of the soul in the performance modes of Black church and Black music / Paul Carter Harrison
  • The sense of self in ritualizing new performance spaces for survival / Beverly J. Robinson
  • Barbara Ann Teer : from holistic training to liberating rituals / Lundeana M. Thomas
  • Bopera theory / Amiri Baraka
  • From hip-hop to Hittite : part X / Keith Antar Mason
  • Members and lames : language in the plays of August Wilson / William W. Cook
  • Porque tu no m'entrende? Whatcha mean you can't understand me? / Ntozake Shange
  • Performance method / George C. Wolfe
  • Afterword : testimony of a witness / Eleanor W. Traylor.