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Theatre and performance in Africa : intercultural perspectives

Title
Theatre and performance in Africa : intercultural perspectives / Eckhard Breitinger (ed.).
Publication
Bayreuth, Germany : Bayreuth University, c1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Breitinger, Eckhard.
  • Gesellschaft für die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen.
Description
216 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Series Statement
  • Yearbook of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English ; Bd. 4
  • Bayreuth African studies, 0178-0034 ; 31
Uniform Title
Bayreuth African studies series ; 31.
Subjects
Note
  • Selected papers from a conference held at Bayreuth University in June 1992, sponsored by the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • English, Akpa, and Idoma.
Contents
Theatre for development or live and let live / Alby James -- Designing a multi-ethnic theatrical idiom : Rose Mbowa's Mother Uganda and her children / Eckhard Breitinger -- Identity and social contexts of cultural transfer in Black drama / Olu Obafemi -- Patterns of communication : Wole Soyinka's Death and the king's horseman / Martin Rohmer -- Masquerade elements on the stage today / Anna Hlavacova -- Perspectives in popular theatre : orality as a definition of new realities / Oga S. Abah -- The dramatist at work : my theatre work is aimed at the urbano-politico-bureaucratic elite in Cameroon / Bole Butake -- Another theatre of the absurd / Zakes Mda -- Theatre at Nigerian universities / Adama Ulrich -- Artists under siege : theatre and the dictatorial regimes in Uganda / Rose Mbowa -- " --satirising those aspects of our life we don't approve of" : a view of the "dark comedies" from the townships / Eckhard Breitinger -- Junction Avenue Theatre Company's Tooth & nail : the state of "interregnum" and new theatre forms in South Africa / Gabriele Grosse Perdekamp -- Song, story and nation : women as singers and actresses in Zimbabwe / Moreblessing Chitauro, Caleb Dube, Liz Gunner -- The quest for a new literary idiom in Nigeria's TV plays / S.E. Osazuwa -- Children's theatre in Cameroon / Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh.
Call Number
Sc D 96-547
ISBN
  • 3927510289 (pbk)
  • 3927510238 (cloth)
  • 3927510319
LCCN
95126936
OCLC
30881945
Title
Theatre and performance in Africa : intercultural perspectives / Eckhard Breitinger (ed.).
Imprint
Bayreuth, Germany : Bayreuth University, c1994.
Series
Yearbook of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English ; Bd. 4
Bayreuth African studies, 0178-0034 ; 31
Bayreuth African studies series ; 31.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Language
English, Akpa, and Idoma.
Added Author
Breitinger, Eckhard.
Gesellschaft für die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen.
Research Call Number
Sc D 96-547
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