Banham / Gibbs / Osofisan African Theatre 9: Histories 1850-1950

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84615-917-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 9, 199 Seiten

Reihe: African Theatre

What kinds of documentation of performances exist - both of colonial and indigenous theatre and how may this range of documentation have affected how we read theatre history?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Banham, Martin

Gibbs, James

Osofisan, Femi

Hutchison, Yvette

Weitere Mitwirkende

Matzke, Christine

Gibbs, James

Seda, Owen

Ravengai, Samuel

Kasule, Sam

Boscolo, Cristina

Keuris, Marisa

Nicholson, Steve

Plastow, Jane

Hutchison, Yvette

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Yvette Hutchison
Looking for 'Eritrea's past property' (1947): archives & memories in Eritrean theatre historiography - Christine Matzke
Seeking the Founding Father: the story of Kobina Sekyi's The Blinkards (1916) - James Gibbs
Medieval morality & liturgical drama in colonial Rhodesia: early Christian martyrs dramatized - Owen Seda
Contesting constructions of cultural production in & through urban theatre in Rhodesia, c.1890-1950 - Samuel Ravengai
'Don't talk into my talk': oral narratives, cultural identity & popular performance in colonial Uganda - Sam Kasule
The leaf & the soap: a story of appropriation & resistance - Cristina Boscolo
The representation of Khoisan characters in early Dutch-Afrikaans dramas in South Africa - Marisa Keuris
Images of Africa in early twentieth-century British theatre - Steve Nicholson
The First African Play: Tekle Hawariat's Fabula: Yawreoch Commedia & its influence on the development of Ethiopian theatre - Jane Plastow
Playscript: Tekle Hawariat's Fabula: Yawreoch Commedia (The Comedy of Animals) translated from the Amharic by Belayneh Abuneh
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Über Autor(innen)

Osofisan Femi:
Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays. Hutchison Yvette:
Yvette Hutchison is Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick.Matzke Christine:
CHRISTINE MATZKE, Lecturer in African Literatures and Cultures, Humboldt-University, Berlin.Plastow Jane:
Jane Plastow is Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds.Hutchison Yvette:
Yvette Hutchison is Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick.