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Senegalese Stagecraft : Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa / Brian Valente-Quinn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Valente-Quinn, Brian, author.
- Series:
- Performance works.
- Performance Works
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater and society.
- Theater.
- Senegalese drama (French).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Senegalese Stagecraft explores the particular role of the theatrical stage in Senegal as a site of poetic expression, political activism, and community engagement"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Colonial Pedagogy and Creative Enactment: The Theater of the École Normale William Ponty
- A Political Theater for a New Elite: The French Cultural Centers of the 1950s
- The 1966 First World Festival of Negro Arts: Hommes de Culture and the Epic Pan-African Stage
- Staging Sufi Stories: The Religious Stage Space of Bamba Mos Xam
- From Stage to Screen: The Rise of Senegalese Television
- Stagecraft and Popular Theater
- Conclusion. Theater as a Senegalese Invention.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-4366-6
- OCLC:
- 1250199926
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