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Trickster theatre : the poetics of freedom in urban Africa /
Trickster Theatre traces the changing social significance of national theatre in Ghana from its rise as an idealistic state project from the time of independence to its reinvention in recent electronic, market-oriented genres. Jesse Weaver Shipley presents portraits of many key figures in Ghanaian t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | African expressive cultures.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: poetics of duality and uncertainty
- History and mediations in making theatre
- Making culture : race, history, and a theory of performance in the Gold Coast colony
- The national theatre movement : urban art infrastructures and a contested national culture in independence-era Accra
- Revolutionary storytelling : Pan-African theatre and remaking lost futures in 1980s Ghana
- A man of the people : Mohammed Ben Abdallah as artist-politician
- Stagings in millennial Ghana
- Total African theatre : language, reflexivity, and ambiguity in The witch of Mopti
- "The best tradition goes on" : audience, consumption, and the structural transformation of Concert Party popular theatre
- Fake pastors and real comedians : doubling and parody in miraculous, charismatic performance
- Copying independence : backstage at the fiftieth-anniversary re-enactment of Nkrumah's independence speech
- Epilogue: unfreedom as critical theory.