Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance

Herausgeber: Igweonu, Kene

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Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance brings together the latest international research on performing arts across the continent and the diaspora into one wide-ranging collection, offering readers a compelling journey through different ideas, people and practices which shape African theatre.

Produktdetails

• Routledge International Handbooks
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 180mm x 253mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1120g
• ISBN-13: 9781032008400
• ISBN-10: 1032008407
• Artikelnr.: 70146271

Autorenporträt

Kene Igweonu is Professor of Creative Education at University of the Arts London, where he is also Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of London College of Communication. An interdisciplinary researcher, Professor Igweonu has extensive experience of senior academic leadership in immersive and interactive practices and performance practice. His practice research and publication interests are in storytelling, theatre, and performance in Africa and its Diaspora, as well as the Feldenkrais Method in health, wellbeing, and performance training. A champion for arts and creative industries, Professor Igweonu is Chair of DramaHE, Council Member for Creative UK, and until August 2023, President of the African Theatre Association.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1 - Colonial and Postcolonial Theatre 2. 'Local
Heritage in North African Theatre: Between Cultural Renewal and Identity
Politics' 3. 'Ritualistic Performances in Cameroon' 4. 'The Dùndún Drumming
Tradition and the Colonising Missionaries' 5. 'The Emblematic Legacy of
Robert Serumaga's Abafumi (Storytellers) Theatre Company' 6. 'Sony Labou
Tansi's Theatre for a New Humanity' 7. 'The Intermittent Rise of Angolan
Theatre' 8. 'Lost History of Music for Self-delectation: Tracing Malawi's
Moribund Performance Genres' 9. 'Reconfiguring Postcolonial Cultural
Policy: Impetus from Zimbabwean and South African Performers and
Performances' Part 2 - Theatre Spaces 10. 'Design and Other Aesthetic
Elements in Duro Ladipo's Oba Koso and Moremi' 11. 'Interview with
Professor Rose Mbowa' 12. 'Spatial Temporality and the Poetics of Space
Liminality in Ebiran Ekuechi Facekuerade Performance' 13. 'The State
Theatre in a Transforming South Africa' 14. 'The CITO - Burkina Faso's
Alternative to a National Theatre' 15. 'Theatre of Statehood: An
Examination of NAFEST 2020 and 2021 Opening Ceremony Performances' 16.
'From Stage Space to Video Space and Back: Multimedia Performance and
Audience Engineering in a Contemporary African Environment' 17.
'"Connections Across Remoteness": Interacting Online Spaces at the South
African Virtual National Arts Festivals (2021-2022)' 18. 'Uninhibited
Theatre in Burundi at the Buja Sans Tabou Festival: An Interview with
Festival Director Freddy Sabimbona' Part 3 - Theatre for Development and
Social Change 19. 'Democratising the Theatre for Development (TfD) Space
through Balancing Power Dynamics: Analysing Practice-Based Experiences from
Uganda' 20. 'Representation of Femicide on Theatre Stages: The Urgency to
Respond to the Scourge of Violent Murders of Women in Postcolonial South
Africa' 21. 'Understanding Intra-Gender Hostility through Feminist Critical
Discourse Analysis: Performative Discursivities in the Works of Female
Nigerian Playwrights' 22. 'Labarin Aisha (Aisha's Tale) and Aisha Tori:
Radio Drama as Paradigms of Social Change in Northern Nigeria' 23.
'Intervention Theatre/Film Watatu (2015) as a Counter-Narrative to
Radicalization of the Youth in the Coastal Region of Kenya' 24. 'After
Revivals: New Protest Theatre by "Born Free" South Africans' 25. 'Performed
Activism as a Vehicle for Social Change in Nigeria' 26. 'Prosper Kompaoré
and Theatre for Development in Burkina Faso: An Interview with Prosper
Kompaoré' 27. 'Hope through the Many Theatres of Africa: An Interview with
Togolese Performer Afi Akofa Kougbenou' Part 4 - Diaspora 28. 'Life Forces,
Spirit Bodies and the Claiming of Space - Black/British?' 29. 'Contemporary
Representations of Africa on the British Stage: A Case Study of Theresa
Ikoko's Girls and Inua Ellams's Barber Shop Chronicles' 30. 'Expanding the
Diasporic Legacies of Race and Nationalism: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin
in the Sun and Kwame Kwei-Armah's Beneatha's Place' 31. 'Appropriating the
Victorian Past in African American Theatre' 32. 'Representations of Africa
in 21st Century African-American Drama' 33. 'Performance Arts, Theatre and
Politics in Angola and Its Diaspora' 34. 'Tracking "Rasha's Gaze" to Spaces
of (un)Belonging: Black Performance in 21st-Century Berlin' Part 5 -
Theatre Futures 35. 'Interweaving Discourse in the Arabo-Islamic World:
Tracing its Historical and Contemporary Dimensions' 36. 'The Sankofa
Strategy: A Plea for a Timeless African Theatres' 37. 'Africa's Invisible
Anglophone Women Creatives Daring to Challenge the 21st Century' 38. 'The
Future of African Theatre Is Female: Women Theatre Artists in West African
Theatre of the Twenty-First Century' 39. 'Beyond Ritual Drama and Marxism:
The Future of Nigerian Theatre in Yoruba's Omoluabi Essence Philosophy as
Performance Aesthetics' 40. 'A History of the Decolonised African Theatre
Aesthetic: Projections of an Emergent African Theatre Practice -
Afroscenology' 41. 'Contemporary East African Dance Theatre: Emerging
Decoloniality and Choreographic Self-writing' 42. 'The Need for a
Production Policy for African Theatres: An Interview with Beninese
Playwright, Sèdjro Giovanni Houansou'