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Author : Emeka Nwabueze
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789780223243
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (232 download)
Download or read book A Critical Study of Modern African Drama written by Emeka Nwabueze and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Damlègue Lare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783962030278
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Modern African Drama: Critical and Theoretical Approaches written by Damlègue Lare and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a contour of the literary theories and critical approaches in modern African drama. Theories are discussed against the backdrop of modern African drama and include Symbolism, Naturalism, Nativism, the quest for Indigenous Aesthetics, Oral Narratives, Narratology, Marxism, Cultural Materialism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Psycho-analytic criticism, New Historicism, Ecocriticism, Feminism, Postcolonialism and Intertextuality. The objective is to offer researchers and scholars of modern African drama a comprehensive approach of the discipline of African drama from theoretical perspective. Critical debates on the possibility of reading African drama with the lenses of contemporary literary theories have been controversial among critics of African literature. Some critics have been asserting that African drama should be theory-free in its intellectual and scholarly interpretation. Others opine that modern African drama should be analyzed within the mainstream of African literature alongside the novel and poetry. This book seeks to revert these views by pointing out the importance of theories in the interpretation and understanding of African drama.
Author : Biodun Jeyifo
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393975291
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (752 download)
Download or read book Modern African Drama written by Biodun Jeyifo and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents eight twentieth-century plays from seven African countries, along with explanatory notes and over thirty background writings and works of criticism.
Author : John Conteh-Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521434539
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa written by John Conteh-Morgan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to be entirely devoted to African literary drama in French, a major component of African theater. Beginning with a detailed analysis of its relationship to a variety of precolonial, but sometimes still contemporary, traditions of performance that constitute part of its roots, the author examines this drama in both its literary and theatrical dimensions. He discusses its development, themes and techniques up to and including contemporary theater. The book is divided into two sections: Part One offers a theoretical and historical background; Part Two analyzes key individual plays central to the repertoire, including two from the Caribbean. All quotations are translated into English.
Author : A. O. Dasylva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dramatic Literature, a Critical Source Book written by A. O. Dasylva and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isaiah Ilo
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304583465
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Language Aesthetics of Modern African Drama written by Isaiah Ilo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this book is to initiate theoretical discussions on the popular subject of African literary language, and the thrust of the contribution, apart from theory-building, is the introduction of the Post-indiginist concept next to the well known essentialist and hybrid concepts. The study outlines a set of criteria for each aesthetic concept, so that literary analysis based on the criteria will verify whether or not they are adequate for understanding, explaining and describing African writers' language usage. It is expected that a language aesthetic theory in the African context may help in the study of individual writers' styles and equally address a neglect of descriptive studies in African literary scholarship.
Author : Lokangaka Losambe
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9781919876061
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Pre-colonial and Post-colonial Drama and Theatre in Africa written by Lokangaka Losambe and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays written from different critical perspectives, African playwrights demonstrate through their art that they are not only witnesses, but also consciences, of their societies.
Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Soyinka written by Wole Soyinka and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Kebaya
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (345 download)
Download or read book African Drama And Theatre written by Charles Kebaya and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Drama and Theatre: A Criticism, explores critical questions that scholars of African drama and theatre continue to grapple with. The contributors to this text investigate the developments of African drama and theatre from the Pre-colonial period to the Present. While paying attention to issues that characterize the practice of African drama and theatre in each historical period and with illustrations drawn from various parts of Africa, the contributors engage particular perspectives, theoretical and/or conceptual frameworks in their analyses. The result is a rich collection of essays that cover a wide range of topics such as the Concept and Nature of Traditional African drama and theatre, African Aesthetics in Traditional African drama and theatre, Re-appropriation of the African Aesthetic in Modern African drama, the Growth and Development of Kenyan drama and theatre, Theatre for Development in East Africa, and Minimalism as a theatrical strategy in Athol Fugard's plays. The essays herein reflect a well researched representation of what has and is taking place in drama and theatrical scenes in the African continent. It is a book whose insights can be brought to bear upon contemporary discourses on African drama and theatre beyond the confined boundaries of this text. About the Editors John Mugubi., PhD. is a seasoned scholar of Literature, Theatre Arts and Film at Kenyatta University. He holds a B.A. and M. A. from the University of Nairobi and a PhD from Kenyatta University. He has widely published in Literature, Theatre and Film. Charles Kebaya, M.A, holds a Master of Arts degree in Literature with a bias in Drama and Theatre Criticism and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Literature from Kenyatta University. Currently, Kebaya is working on his PhD Dissertation on drama and theatre. His research interests are in Postcoloniality in Literature, Drama and Theatre.
Author : Richard Paul Knowles
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802086211
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Modern Drama written by Richard Paul Knowles and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors examine varied topics such as the analysis of periodicity; the articulation of social, political, and cultural production in theatre; the re-evaluation of texts, performances, and canons; and demonstrations of how interdisciplinarity inflects theatre and its practice.
Author : Yemi Ogunbiyi
Publisher : Lagos : Nigeria Magazine
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Drama and Theatre in Nigeria written by Yemi Ogunbiyi and published by Lagos : Nigeria Magazine. This book was released on 1981 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Plastow
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Contemporary African Plays written by Jane Plastow and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays included in this volume are: Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka; Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo; The Chattering and the Song by Femo Osofisan; The Rise and SHine of Comrade Fiasco by Andrew Whalley; Woza Albert! by Percy Mtwa, et al; and The Other War by Alemseged Tesfai.
Author : Mzo Sirayi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477120823
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)
Download or read book South African Drama and Theatre from Pre-colonial Times to the 1990s: An Alternative Reading written by Mzo Sirayi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mzo Sirayi has embarked on a highly impressive and daring enterprise with the unfl inching boldness of a scholar who is driven by a passionate pursuit to set the record straight. He manages to pull no punches and make no apologies by being true to his convictions, especially within the context of a new South Africa. The book adopts a largely historicized, critical and analytical perspective, which strikingly approximates that of postcolonial theory. — Owen Seda This new and authoritative book is an excellent addition to the few existing books on black South African drama and theatre. South African Drama and Th eatre from Pre-colonial Times to 1990s: An Alternative Reading takes the reader on a tour of the indigenous as well as the modern South African theatre zones. The chapters reverberate with echoes of Africanisation and rock on renaissance waves. This exciting and stimulating book is transparently readable, accessible and is of inestimable value to academics and general readers. — Patrick Ebewo
Author : Sophia Kwachuh Mempuh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350034533
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Plays by African Women written by Sophia Kwachuh Mempuh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume uniquely draws together seven contemporary plays by a selection of the finest African women writers and practitioners from across the continent, offering a rich and diverse portrait of identity, politics, culture, gender issues and society in contemporary Africa. Niqabi Ninja by Sara Shaarawi (Egypt) is set in Cairo during the chaotic time of the Egyptian uprising. Not That Woman by Tosin Jobi-Tume (Nigeria) addresses issues of violence against women in Nigeria and its attendant conspiracy of silence. The play advocates zero-tolerance for violence against women and urges women to bury shame and speak out rather than suffer in silence. I Want To Fly by Thembelihle Moyo (Zimbabwe) tells the story of an African girl who wants to be a pilot. It looks at how patriarchal society shapes the thinking of men regarding lobola (bride price), how women endure abusive men and the role society at large plays in these issues. Silent Voices by Adong Judith (Uganda) is a one-act play based on interviews with people involved in the LRA and the effects of the civil war in Uganda. It critiques this, and by implication, other truth commissions. Unsettled by JC Niala (Kenya) deals with gender violence, land issues and relations of both black and white Kenyans living in, and returning to, the country. Mbuzeni by Koleka Putuma (South Africa) is a story of four female orphans, aged eight to twelve, their sisterhood and their fixation with death and burials. It explores the unseen force that governs and dictates the laws that the villagers live by. Bonganyi by Sophia Kwachuh Mempuh (Cameroon) depicts the effects of colonialism as told through the story of a slave girl: a singer and dancer, who wants to win a competition to free her family. Each play also includes a biography of the playwright, the writer's own artistic statement, a production history of the play and a critical contextualisation of the theatrical landscape from which each woman is writing.
Author : Biodun Jeyifo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139439081
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Wole Soyinka written by Biodun Jeyifo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biodun Jeyifo examines the connections between the innovative and influential writings of Wole Soyinka and his radical political activism. Jeyifo carries out detailed analyses of Soyinka's most ambitious works, relating them to the controversies generated by Soyinka's use of literature and theatre for radical political purposes. He gives a fascinating account of the profound but paradoxical affinities and misgivings Soyinka has felt about the significance of the avant-garde movements of the twentieth century. Jeyifo also explores Soyinka's works with regard to the impact on his artistic sensibilities of the pervasiveness of representational ambiguity and linguistic exuberance in Yoruba culture. The analyses and evaluations of this study are presented in the context of Soyinka's sustained engagement with the violence of collective experience in post-independence, postcolonial Africa and the developing world. No existing study of Soyinka's works and career has attempted such a systematic investigation of their complex relationship to politics.
Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521398343
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (983 download)
Download or read book Myth, Literature and the African World written by Wole Soyinka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa.
Author : Michael Etherton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000952525
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Development of African Drama written by Michael Etherton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1982, this book explores concepts such as ‘traditional performance’ and African theatre’. It analyses the links between drama and ritual, and drama and music and diagnoses the confusions in our thought. The reader is reminded that drama is never merely the printed word, but that its existence as literature and in performance is necessarily different. The analysis shows that literature tends to replace performance; and drama, removed from the popular domain, becomes elitist. The book’s richness lies in the constantly stimulating analysis of ‘art’ theatre, as exemplified in protest plays, in African adaptations and transpositions of such classical subjects as the Bacchae and Everyman, in plays on African history, on colonialism and neo-colonialism. The final chapters argue that the form of African drama needs to evolve as the content does.
