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New Francophone African and Caribbean theatres / John Conteh-Morgan with Dominic Thomas.

Title
  1. New Francophone African and Caribbean theatres / John Conteh-Morgan with Dominic Thomas.
Published by
  1. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.
Author
  1. Conteh-Morgan, John.

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Additional authors
  1. Thomas, Dominic.
  2. Thomas, Dominic Richard David
Description
  1. xviii, 208 p.; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. African expressive cultures
Uniform title
  1. Project Muse UPCC books
  2. African expressive cultures.
Subject
  1. Electronic books
  2. Criticism, interpretation, etc
  3. Theater > Caribbean, French-speaking
  4. Caribbean drama (French) > History and criticism
  5. Theater > Africa, French-speaking West
  6. Theater > Africa, French-speaking Equatorial
  7. African drama (French) > History and criticism
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  2. Electronic books
Contents
  1. Introduction : instrumentalizing performance and the Francophone postcolonial performative -- Cultural trauma and ritual re-membering : Werewere Liking's Les mains veulent dire -- The dramatist as epic performer : Eugène Dervain's Saran, ou la reine scélérate -- The power and the pleasures of dramatized narrative : Bernard Zadi Zaourou's La guerre des femmes -- Theatre as writing and voice : Patrick Chamoiseau's Manman dlo contre la fée carabosse -- Tradition instrumentalized : Elie Stephenson's O mayouri -- Militariat grotesqueries and tragic lament : Tchicaya u Tam'si's Le destin glorieux du maréchal nnikon nniku, prince qu'on sort and le bal de ndinga -- From the grotesque to the fantastic : Sony Labou Tansi's Qui a mangé Madame d'Avoine Bergotha? -- Exile and the failure of the nation; or, diasporic subjectivity from below : Simone Schwarz-Bart's Ton beau capitaine -- Conclusion : Francophone theatres in the age of globalization.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain