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Re-writing pasts, imagining futures : critical explorations of contemporary African fiction and theater / edited by Victor N. Gomia and Gilbert Shang Ndi.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African fiction--History and criticism.
- African fiction.
- African drama--History and criticism.
- African drama.
- Postcolonialism--Africa.
- Postcolonialism.
- Africa.
- Breitinger, Eckhard.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 245 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Denver, Colorado : Spears Media Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Bayreuth-Africa Summer School: Model for North-South/South-South Partnerships and Cultural Knowledge Production and Transfer / Christopher Odhiambo Joseph
- ch. 2 Historical Mythopoeia as Dramatic Resource: A Study of Selected plays by Amiri Baraka and Bate Besong / Donatus Fai Tangem
- ch. 3 The Adaptation of History for Revolutionary Motifs in Femi Osofisan's Plays / Onivukah Benjamin Orji-Mba
- ch. 4 `As it was in the Beginning...': Religious Fanaticism and the Quest for a New Messiah in the Plays of Derek Walcott and Bate Besong / Yimbu Emmanuel Nchia
- ch. 5 Post-Apartheid South Africa and the Advent of Social Change in the Selected Novels of Nadine Gordimer and Nicholas Mhlongo / Forti Etienne Langmia
- ch. 6 Triple Marginality in Cameroon Anglophone Literature / Kenneth Toah Nsah
- ch. 7 Ayi Kwei Armah and the Pan-African Quest for an Ethical Future / Gilbert Shang Ndi
- ch. 8 Theorizing the Police State: Postcolonial Dystopia in Mongo Beti's The Story of the Madman / Eric Nsuh Zuhmboshi
- ch. 9 Alobwed'Epie's The Day God Blinked: Complexities, Ambiguities and Contradictions in Female Representation / Eleanor Anneh Dasi
- ch. 10 Globalization and Gender politics in the Indigenous African Society: Knowing the African Woman in Tell It To Women / Edwin Tangwa
- ch. 11 Mythic Imagination and the Construction of Postdiasporic Identity in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise / Didymus Dounla
- ch. 12 Tracing the Beginnings and the Importance of Development Theater Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa / Victor N. Gomia
- ch. 13 Tracking the Absence of Theorizing Applied Theatre in Africa / Victor S. Dugga
- ch. 14 The Protest Theatrical Space in Twenty-first Century Social Media Oriented Africa: Re-assessing Bole Butake's And Palmwine will Flow (1990) and Athol Fugard's Sizwe Bansi is Dead (2014) / Irmagard Anchang Langmia.
- Notes:
- "... written in celebration of the life of the distinguished German Africanist, Eckhard Breitinger of Bayreuth University ..."--Back cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781942876182
- 1942876181
- OCLC:
- 1019470544
- Publisher Number:
- 99989206847
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