Laura Edmondson

Performance and Politics in Tanzania

The Nation on Stage

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

She discusses how the blurring of state agendas and local desires presents a charged environment for the exploration of Tanzanian political and social realities: What is the meaning of democracy and who gets to define it? Who is in power, and how is power exposed or concealed? What is the role of tradition in a postsocialist state? How will the future of the nation be negotiated? This engaging book provides important insight into the complexity of popular forms of expression during a time of political and social change in East Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780253219121
• ISBN-10: 0253219124
• Artikelnr.: 21226375

Autorenporträt

Laura Edmondson is an assistant professor of theatre studies at Dartmouth College.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Acts of Complicity: Meanings, Methods, and Maps
Part 1. Imagining the Nation
1. Performing, Transforming, and Reforming Tanzania: A Historical Tale
2. Alternative Nations: Locating Tradition, Morality, and Power
Part 2. Sexing the Nation
3. National Erotica: The Politics of Ngoma
4. Popular Drama and the Mapping of Home
Part 3. Contesting the Nation
5. Culture Wars: TOT versus Muungano
6. A Victor Declared: Popular Performance in the New Millennium
Glossary of Swahili Terms
Notes
List of References
Index