Research Catalog

Title

Decolonizing the stage : theatrical syncretism and post-colonial drama / Christopher B. Balme.

Author

Balme, Christopher B.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

xiv, 304 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Decolonizing the Stage is a major study devoted to post-colonial drama and theatre. It examines the way dramatists and directors from various countries and societies have attempted to fuse the performance idioms of their indigenous traditions with the Western dramatic form. These experiments are termed 'syncretic theatre'. The study provides a theoretically sophisticated, cross-cultural comparative approach to a wide number of writers, regions, and theatre movements, ranging from Maori, Aboriginal, and native American theatre to Township theatre in South Africa. Writers studied include Nobel-Prize-winning authors such as Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, and Rabindranath Tagore, along with others such as Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Jack Davis, Girish Karnad, and Tomson Highway."--Jacket.

Subject

• Commonwealth
• Fürstliches Schauspielhaus Bad Pyrmont
• Drama > History and criticism
• Theater > Developing countries
• Literature and society > Developing countries
• Postcolonialism in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-297) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Indigenous Theories of Syncretic Theatre -- 2. Ritual Frames and Liminal Dramaturgy -- 3. Language and the Post-Colonial Stage -- 4. Orality as Performance -- 5. Visualizing the Body -- 6. Dance and Body Language -- 7. Spaces and Spectators.

ISBN

0198184441 (hc.)

LCCN

^^^98036573^

OCLC

• 39655593
• SCSB-11216777

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library