African women playwrights / edited and with an introduction by Kathy A. Perkins ; foreword by Amandina Lihamba.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perkins, Kathy A., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African drama (English)--Women authors.

African drama (English).

African drama (English)--20th century.

Women--Africa--Drama.

Women.

Women authors.

Africa.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

x, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]

Summary:

This anthology consists of nine plays by a diverse group of women from throughout the African continent. The plays focus on a wide range of issues, such as cultural differences, AIDS, female circumcision, women's rights to higher education, racial and skin color identity, prostitution, and resisting old traditions. This collection also includes commentaries by the playwrights on their own plays, and editor Kathy A. Perkins provides additional commentary and a bibliography of published and unpublished plays by African women.

The playwrights featured are Ama Ata Aidoo, Violet R. Barungi, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nathalie Etoke, Dania Gurira, Andiah Kisia, Sindiwe Magona, Malika Ndlovu (Lueen Conning), Juliana Okoh, and Nikkole Salter.

Contents:

The dilemma of a ghost / Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana)

Over my dead body / Violet Barungi (Uganda)

She no longer weeps / Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe)

Better days come in bitter ways / Nathalie Etoké (Cameroon)

Homecoming / Andiah Kisia (Chika Okigbo) (Kenya)

Vukani! (Wake up!) / Sindiwe Magona (South Africa)

A coloured place / Malika Ndlovu (Lueen Conning) (South Africa)

Edewede (The dawn of a new day) / Julie Okoh (Nigeria)

In the continuum / Dania Gurira and Nikkole Salter (Zimbabwe and the United States).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-364).

ISBN:

9780252033872

0252033876

9780252075735

0252075730

OCLC:

213451311