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New Francophone African and Caribbean theatres / John Conteh-Morgan with Dominic Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conteh-Morgan, John.
- Series:
- African expressive cultures.
- African expressive cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African drama (French)--History and criticism.
- African drama (French).
- Theater--Africa, French-speaking Equatorial.
- Theater.
- Theater--Africa, French-speaking West.
- Caribbean drama (French)--History and criticism.
- Caribbean drama (French).
- Theater--Caribbean, French-speaking.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- John Conteh-Morgan explores the multiple ways in which African and Caribbean theatres have combined aesthetic, ceremonial, experimental, and avant-garde practices in order to achieve sharp critiques of the nationalist and postnationalist state and to elucidate the concerns of the francophone world. More recent changes have introduced a transnational dimension, replacing concerns with national and ethnic solidarity in favor of irony and self-reflexivity. New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres places these theatres at the heart of contemporary debates on global cultural and political practices and offers a more finely tuned understanding of performance in diverse diasporic networks.
- Contents:
- Introduction : instrumentalizing performance and the Francophone postcolonial performative
- Cultural trauma and ritual re-membering : Werewere Liking's Les mains veulent dire
- The dramatist as epic performer : Eugene Dervain's Saran, ou la reine scelerate
- The power and the pleasures of dramatized narrative : Bernard Zadi Zaourou's La guerre des femmes
- Theatre as writing and voice : Patrick Chamoiseau's Manman dlo contre la fee carabosse
- Tradition instrumentalized : Elie Stephenson's O mayouri
- Militariat grotesqueries and tragic lament : Tchicaya u Tam'si's Le destin glorieux du marechal nnikon nniku, prince qu'on sort and le bal de ndinga
- From the grotesque to the fantastic : Sony Labou Tansi's Qui a mange Madame d'Avoine Bergotha?
- Exile and the failure of the nation; or, diasporic subjectivity from below : Simone Schwarz-Bart's Ton beau capitaine
- Conclusion : Francophone theatres in the age of globalization.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-81835-X
- 9786612818356
- 1-4416-6975-2
- 0-253-00458-6
- OCLC:
- 678869641
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