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Author : Rolfus Reginald Raymond Dhlomo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book An African Tragedy written by Rolfus Reginald Raymond Dhlomo and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rolfus Reginald Raymond Dhlomo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (819 download)
Download or read book An African Tragedy written by Rolfus Reginald Raymond Dhlomo and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard W. French
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307424308
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book A Continent for the Taking written by Howard W. French and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s most devastating recent history–from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor’s arrival in Monrovia, to the genocide in Rwanda and the Congo that left millions dead. Blending eyewitness reportage with rich historical insight, French searches deeply into the causes of today’s events, illuminating the debilitating legacy of colonization and the abiding hypocrisy and inhumanity of both Western and African political leaders. While he captures the tragedies that have repeatedly befallen Africa’s peoples, French also opens our eyes to the immense possibility that lies in Africa’s complexity, diversity, and myriad cultural strengths. The culmination of twenty-five years of passionate exploration and understanding, this is a powerful and ultimately hopeful book about a fascinating and misunderstood continent.
Author : Kidane Mengisteab
Publisher : Red Sea Press(NJ)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Anatomy of the African Tragedy written by Kidane Mengisteab and published by Red Sea Press(NJ). This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rolfus Reginald Raymond Dhlomo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (72 download)
Download or read book An African Tragedy ... written by Rolfus Reginald Raymond Dhlomo and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur F. Raper
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146964021X
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Tragedy of Lynching written by Arthur F. Raper and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the quest for a preventive to lynching which can be undertaken only after one has an understanding of what it is that is to be prevented. This necessary analysis of lynching--its background, circumstances, and meaning--introduces many baffling elements. The author has made a detailed study of the lynchings of 1930 in an effort to find an answer to the complexities of the problem. Originally published in 1933. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : R. R. R. Dholmo
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)
Download or read book An African Tragedy written by R. R. R. Dholmo and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy Matthew Glick
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479885665
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book The Black Radical Tragic written by Jeremy Matthew Glick and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award presented by the Caribbean Philosophical Association As the first successful revolution emanating from a slave rebellion, the Haitian Revolution remains an inspired site of investigation for a remarkable range of artists and activist-intellectuals in the African Diaspora. In The Black Radical Tragic, Jeremy Matthew Glick examines twentieth-century performances engaging the revolution as laboratories for political thinking. Asking readers to consider the revolution less a fixed event than an ongoing and open-ended history resonating across the work of Atlantic world intellectuals, Glick argues that these writers use the Haitian Revolution as a watershed to chart their own radical political paths, animating, enriching, and framing their artistic and scholarly projects. Spanning the disciplines of literature, philosophy, and political thought, The Black Radical Tragic explores work from Lorraine Hansberry, Sergei Eisenstein, Edouard Glissant, Malcolm X, and others, ultimately enacting a speculative encounter between Bertolt Brecht and C.L.R. James to reconsider the relationship between tragedy and revolution. In its grand refusal to forget, The Black Radical Tragic demonstrates how the Haitian Revolution has influenced the ideas of freedom and self-determination that have propelled Black radical struggles throughout the modern era.
Author : Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786410934
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Athenian Sun in an African Sky written by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2001-11-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western literature has become more influential in Africa since the independence of many of that continent's countries in the early 1960s. In particular, Greek tragedy has grown as model and inspiration for African theatre artists. This work begins with a discussion of the affinity that modern-day African playwrights have for ancient Greek tragedy and the factors that determine their choice of classical texts and topics. The study concentrates on how African playwrights transplant the dramatic action and narrative of the Greek texts by rewriting both the performance codes and the cultural context. The methods by which African playwrights have adapted Greek tragedy and the ways in which the plays satisfy the prevailing principles of both cultures are examined. The plays are The Bacchae of Euripides by Wole Soyinka, Song of a Goat by J.P. Clark, The Gods Are Not to Blame by Ola Rotimi, Guy Butler's Demea, Efua Sutherland's Edufa, Orestes by Athol Fugard, The Song of Jacob Zulu by Tug Yourgrau, Femi Osofisan's Tegonni, Edward Kamau Brathwaite's Odale's Choice, The Island by Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona, and Sylvain Bemba's Black Wedding Candles for Blessed Antigone.
Author : Alan Paton
Publisher : London : Oxford U.P.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hofmeyr written by Alan Paton and published by London : Oxford U.P.. This book was released on 1964 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Randall Fegley
Publisher : Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Equatorial Guinea written by Randall Fegley and published by Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ato Quayson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108924956
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature written by Ato Quayson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile rubric of tragedy. He draws from many key works – Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, Medea, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear – to establish the main contours of tragedy. Quayson uses Shakespeare's Othello, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Tayeb Salih, Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee to qualify and expand the purview and terms by which Western tragedy has long been understood. Drawing on key texts such as The Poetics and The Nicomachean Ethics, and augmenting them with Frantz Fanon and the Akan concept of musuo (taboo), Quayson formulates a supple, insightful new theory of ethical choice and the impediments against it. This is a major book from a leading critic in literary studies.
Author : Astrid Van Weyenberg
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 940120957X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Adaptation written by Astrid Van Weyenberg and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 mourning. The opening chapters focus on plays that mobilize Greek tragedy to inspire political change, discussing how Sophocles’ heroine Antigone is reconfigured as a freedom fighter and how Euripides’ Dionysos is transformed into a revolutionary leader. The later chapters shift the focus to plays that explore the costs and consequences of political change, examining how the cycle of violence dramatized in Aeschylus’ Oresteia trilogy acquires relevance in post-apartheid South Africa, and how the mourning of Euripides’ Trojan Women resonates in and beyond Nigeria. Throughout, the emphasis is on how playwrights, through adaptation, perform a cultural politics directed at the Europe that has traditionally considered ancient Greece as its property, foundation, and legitimization. Van Weyenberg additionally discusses how contemporary African reworkings of Greek tragedies invite us to reconsider how we think about the genre of tragedy and about the cultural process of adaptation. Against George Steiner’s famous claim that tragedy has died, this book demonstrates that Greek tragedy holds relevance today. But it also reveals that adaptations do more than simply keeping the texts they draw on alive: through adaptation, playwrights open up a space for politics. In this dynamic between adaptation and pre-text, the politics of adaptation is performed.
Author : Stephen Chan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857731297
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Grasping Africa written by Stephen Chan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is huge, internationally vital, potentially rich and powerful yet mired in failure - political, economic, social and even cultural. Yet the story of contemporary Africa is not just one of global tragedy but also of enormous hope for the future. This stimulating and unconventional book on Africa today and its relationship with the West explores the many complex reasons behind Africa's failure to fulfil its potential - it is a continent blighted by colonialism, exploitation and the interference of great powers in the international relations of the region - and offers some genuinely original and well-argued suggestions for ways forward. Critical and objective yet involved and sympathetic, "Grasping Africa" demonstrates Stephen Chan's deep understanding of the history and politics of Africa based on his long experience of the continent in often dangerous circumstances.
Author : Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786451593
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Black Dionysus written by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many playwrights, authors, poets and historians have used images, metaphors and references to and from Greek tragedy, myth and epic to describe the African experience in the New World. The complex relationship between ancient Greek tragedy and modern African American theatre is primarily rooted in America, where the connection between ancient Greece and ancient Africa is explored and debated the most. The different ways in which Greek tragedy has been used by playwrights, directors and others to represent and define African American history and identity are explored in this work. Two models are offered for an Afro-Greek connection: Black Orpheus, in which the Greek connection is metaphorical, expressing the African in terms of the European; and Black Athena, in which ancient Greek culture is "reclaimed" as part of an Afrocentric tradition. African American adaptations of Greek tragedy on the continuum of these two models are then discussed, and plays by Peter Sellars, Adrienne Kennedy, Lee Breuer, Rita Dove, Jim Magnuson, Ernest Ferlita, Steve Carter, Silas Jones, Rhodessa Jones and Derek Walcott are analyzed. The concepts of colorblind and nontraditional casting and how such practices can shape the reception and meaning of Greek tragedy in modern American productions are also covered.
Author : Thomas Mofolo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803288345
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Chaka written by Thomas Mofolo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Mofolo's final novel and masterpiece, Chaka captures the phenomenal rise and fall of the great Zulu king. One of the earliest modern literary classics from Southern Africa, Chaka, is the tragic tale of a warrior-king and his insatiable hunger for power. Told in a mythic style, Chaka follows the torments of the Zulu king's early life, his rapid ascension to the throne, and the prophesied events that lead to his downfall. 'Chaka is a beautifully dark and twisted take on the true life story of the Zulu King ... built around one of the most enigmatic and memorable literary figures you'd ever encounter.' Ainehi Edoro
Author : Martha J. Simmons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book 9.11.01 written by Martha J. Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading voices from the African-American religious community--including Jesse Jackson Sr., Michael Eric Dyson, T.D. Jakes, and Calvin O. Butts III--speak out on the tragedy of September 11, 2001.
