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Re-writing Pasts, Imagining Futures : Critical Explorations of Contemporary African Fiction and Theater /
This book is a collection of essays on various aspects of contemporary African fiction and theater. The breadth and depth of the collection speak to the innovative trends in African fiction and theater in an increasingly interconnected world. Whereas the views of the authors are inherently diverse,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Victor N. Gomia and Gilbert Shang Ndi
- 1. Bayreuth-Africa Summer School : model for north-south/south-south partnerships and cultural knowledge production and transfer / Christopher Odhiambo Joseph
- 2. Historical mythopoeia as dramatic resource : a study of selected plays by Amiri Baraka and Bate Besong / Donatus Fai Tangem
- 3. The adaptation of history for revolutionary motifs in Femi Osofisan's plays / Onwukah Benjamin Orji-Mba
- 4. 'As it was in the beginning...' : religious fanaticism and the quest for a new messiah in the plays of Derek Walcott and Bate Besong / Yimbu Emmanuel Nchia
- 5. Post-apartheid South Africa and the advent of social change in the selected novels of Nadine Gordimer and Nicholas Mhlongo / Forti Etienne Langmia
- 6. Triple marginality in Cameroon Anglophone literature / Kenneth Toah Nsah
- 7. Ayi Kwei Armah and the pan-African quest for an ethical future / Gilbert Shang Ndi
- 8. Theorizing the police state : postcolonial dystopia in Mongo Beti's The story of the madman / Eric Nsuh Zuhmboshi
- 9. Alobwed'Epie's The day God blinked : complexities, ambiguities and contradictions in female representation / Eleanor Anneh Dasi
- 10. Globalization and gender politics in the indigenous African society : knowing the African woman in Tell it to women / Edwin Tangwa
- 11. Mythic imagination and the construction of postdiasporic identity in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise / Divine Che Neba and Didymus Dounla
- 12. Tracing the beginnings and the importance of development theater practice in sub-Saharan Africa / Victor N. Gomia
- 13. Tracking the absence of theorizing applied theatre in Africa / Victor S. Dugga
- 14. The protest theatrical space in twenty-first century social media oriented Africa : re-assessing Bole Butake's And palmwine will flow (1990) and Athol Fugard's Sizwe Bansi is dead (2014) / Irmagard Anchang Langmia.