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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Women's Voices and African Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253215390
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (153 download)
Download or read book African Theatre written by Martin Banham and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this volume in the African Theatre series make clear that the role of women in the theatre across the continent has changed as control is mainly held by literate elites and women's traditional standing has been lost to men.
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 : Yvette Hutchison
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 1350034517
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Plays by African Women written by Yvette Hutchison and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws together six contemporary plays by female African writers, offering a rare insight into the work being produced by these practitioners. These plays, which are selected from writers across the continent, together give a rich portrait of identity, politics, culture and society in contemporary Africa. The editors of the volume have also provided biographies and the writers' own artistic statements; production histories; and a critical contextualisation of the theatre from which each woman is writing. This provides a rich context from which these plays can be prescribed for study, both at secondary school and undergraduate level--Provided by publisher.
Author : Kathy A. Perkins
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252075730
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book African Women Playwrights written by Kathy A. Perkins and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, a distinctive collection of plays by African women published in English
Author : ‘Tosin Kooshima Tume
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350407984
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Gendering Taboos: 10 Short Plays by African Women written by ‘Tosin Kooshima Tume and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten new short plays by African women tackling taboo topics on identity, gender, sexualities, family relations and power. Following the international success of Contemporary Plays by African Women, this new collection is the next step in the African Women Playwright Network (AWPN) both showcasing and encouraging the development of new work. Consisting of the ten winners of the AWPN's international writing competition, this collection is centered around the theme of 'Tackling Taboo Topics in African Female Writing', originally performed as staged readings at the AWPN Festival hosted by the University of Ghana in 2022. Selected from 75 submissions from nine African countries, these plays speak to contemporary and pressing issues, illuminating lived experiences of African women that are common but seldom discussed. An important resource for schools and universities looking to diversify and decolonise curricula and engage with short works for practical classes, performances and auditions from a range of various cultures, Gendering Taboos is also an invaluable tool for programmers looking for new work and scholars working specifically in areas of gender and dramatic criticism.
Author : Kathy A. Perkins
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253113660
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Black Female Playwrights written by Kathy A. Perkins and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fine reading and a superb resource." -- Ms. "Highly recommended." -- Library Journal "Perkins has chosen the plays well, and her issue-oriented introduction places the women and their works in a literary and historical context." -- Choice "As well as being centered on the black experience, the plays in Black Female Playwrights are centered on the female experience." -- Voice Literary Supplement "Perkins' anthology is valuable for a number of reasons... Perkins' book (which includes a bibliography of plays and pageants by black women before 1950 as well as a selected bibliography of critical works) is a major help in providing access to [the world of black drama]." -- Theatre Journal The need to acknowledge these works was the impetus behind this volume. Perkins has selected nineteen plays from seven writers who were among the major dramatizers of the black experience during this early period. As forerunners to the activist black theater of the 1950s and 1960s, these plays represent a critical stage in the development of black drama in the United States.
Author : Twinkle Suri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Room of Their Own written by Twinkle Suri and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B. Ozieblo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137010568
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Performing Gender Violence written by B. Ozieblo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence against women in plays bywomen has earned little mention. This revolutionary collection fills that gap, focusing on plays by American women dramatists, written in the last thirty years, that deal with different forms of gender violence. Each author discusses specific manifestations of violence in carefully selected plays: psychological, familial, war-time, and social injustice. This book encompasses the theatrical devices used to represent violence on the stage in an age of virtual, immediate reality as much as the problematics of gender violence in modern society.
Author : Woodie King
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557831743
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (317 download)
Download or read book Voices of Color written by Woodie King and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of scenes and monologues by African American playwrights.
Author : Marcia Shirley Blumberg
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780612146167
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (461 download)
Download or read book Engendering Voice, Staging Intervention written by Marcia Shirley Blumberg and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1996 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lizbeth Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135293538
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Wom Pol Perf S/Afr Thtre written by Lizbeth Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part three of a three texts compiled during the years of change in South Africa, charts the impact of Apartheid and the cultural boycott on performance, and examining the role of women in theatre. Part three focuses on gender and sexuality and features the text of "So What's New".
Author : Asmaa Kashef
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783659365102
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (651 download)
Download or read book The Burst of the Suffocated Voices of African American Women written by Asmaa Kashef and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book concentrates on plays which can be considered hallmarks in the African-American theatre. It focuses on four dramas written by four African-American women as representatives of African-American woman's theatre: Adreinne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964), Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (1974), Aishah Rahman's Unfinished Woman Cry in No Man's Land, While a Bird Dies in a Gilded Cage (1977), and Alexis De Veaux's The Tapestry (1975). Their journey progresses from the recognition of pain to its verbalization and subsequently to self -affirmation. They discuss such controversial issues as abortion, sexuality, female empowerment, while challenging obstacles like racism, sexism and gender stereotypes. The four dramatists tackled their inner sufferings from different angles. Whereas Kennedy's play, Funnyhouse of the Negro, represents death as its final image, Shange's For Colored Girls ends with the heroines' dance to celebrate their real identities in life. Rahman, on the other hand, presents both birth and death at the end of the play. De Veaux adds a new aspect to her play; that is hope.
Author : Sandra Adell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097815
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Plays by African American Women written by Sandra Adell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American women have increasingly begun to see their plays performed from regional stages to Broadway. Yet many of these artists still struggle to gain attention. In this volume, Sandra Adell draws from the vital wellspring of works created by African American women in the twenty-first century to present ten plays by both prominent and up-and-coming writers. Taken together, the selections portray how these women engage with history as they delve into--and shake up--issues of gender and class to craft compelling stories of African American life. Gliding from gritty urbanism to rural landscapes, these works expand boundaries and boldly disrupt modes of theatrical representation. Selections: Blue Door, by Tanya Barfield; Levee James, by S. M. Shephard-Massat; Hoodoo Love, by Katori Hall; Carnaval, by Nikkole Salter; Single Black Female, by Lisa B. Thompson; Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine, by Lynn Nottage; BlackTop Sky, by Christina Anderson; Voyeurs de Venus, by Lydia Diamond; Fedra, by J. Nicole Brooks; and Uppa Creek: A Modern Anachronistic Parody in the Minstrel Tradition, by Keli Garrett.
Author : Yuvraj Nimbaji Herode
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781839988257
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (882 download)
Download or read book Dramatic Movement of African American Women written by Yuvraj Nimbaji Herode and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James M. Burns
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754664956
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (649 download)
Download or read book Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-drumming Community in Ghana written by James M. Burns and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Burns provides a detailed ethnography of a group of female musicians from the Dzigbordi community dance-drumming club from the rural town of Dzodze, located in South-Eastern Ghana. Dzigbordi is part of a genre known as adekede, or female songs of redress, where women musicians critique gender relations in society. Burns uses audio and video interviews, recordings of rehearsals and performances and detailed collaborative analyses of song texts, dance routines and performance practice to address important methodological shifts in ethnomusicology that outline a more humanistic perspective of music cultures. The book will appeal to those interested in African Studies, Gender Studies and Oral Literature, as well as ethnomusicology and includes a DVD documentary.
Author : Lizbeth Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113529884X
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Women, Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today written by Lizbeth Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, 'Women, Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today' is an important contribution to Performance.
