A History of theatre in Africa /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 478 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11814717 |
| Summary: | This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. The roots of African theatre are ancient and complex and lie in areas of community festival, seasonal rhythm and religious ritual, as well as in the work of popular entertainers and storytellers. Since the 1950s, in a movement that has paralleled the political emancipation of so much of the continent, there has also grown a theatre that comments back from the colonized world to the world of the colonists and explores its own cultural, political and linguistic identity. A History of Theatre in Africa offers a comprehensive, yet accessible, account of this long and varied chronicle, written by a team of scholars in the field. Chapters include an examination of the concepts of 'history' and 'theatre'; North Africa; Francophone theatre; Anglophone West Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Lusophone African theatre; Mauritius and Reunion; and the African diaspora. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 478 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511193620 0511193629 9780521808132 0521808138 0511194366 9780511194368 0511195052 9780511195051 0511195710 9780511195716 1280477660 9781280477669 1316085678 9781316085677 0511314108 9780511314100 |