Myth performance in the African diasporas : ritual, theatre, and dance / Benita Brown, Dannabang Kuwabong, and Christopher Olsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Benita, author.

Contributor:

Kuwabong, Dannabang, 1955-

Olsen, Christopher, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--Black authors--History and criticism.

Drama.

Mythology, African, in literature.

English literature--African influences.

English literature.

Dance, Black--History and criticism.

Dance, Black.

Drama--Black authors.

Africa--Influence.

Africa.

Physical Description:

vi, 166 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013.

Contents:

Re-visionary history as myth performance: a postcolonial re-reading of Maud Cuney-Hare's Antar of Araby, Willis Richardson's The Black horseman, and Aimé Césaire's And the dogs were silent

The Òrìsà paradigm: an overview of African-derived mythology, folklore, and kinesthetic dance performative

Performative body language in Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Lynn Nottage's Ruined: African female bodies through African American eyes

The codification of soul in African-derived dance culture

Of rebels, tricksters, and supernatural beings: toward a semiotics of myth performance in African Caribbean and Afro-Brazilian dramas

Of princesses and queens: the mythical journeys home in Djanet Sears' Afrika, solo and Rebecca Fisseha's Wise.woman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810892798

0810892790

9780810892804

0810892804

OCLC:

856054361