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Titre conventionnel : [Mélanges. Irobi, Esiaba]
Titre(s) : Syncretic arenas [Texte imprimé] : essays on postcolonial African drama and theatre for Esiaba Irobi / edited by Isidore Diala
Publication : Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2014
Description matérielle : xvii, 369 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection : Cross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 177
Lien à la collection : Cross/cultures (Amsterdam)
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
This collection in part examines the legacy of the consummate Nigerian stage artist
and scholar, Esiaba Irobi (1960-2010). Poems, tributes, and studies celebrate Irobi's
significance as actor, playwright, director, poet, and theatre theorist. Irobi's life,
temper, times, and career are inextricably linked to the history, development, concerns,
and uses of drama and theatre in Africa. The contributions highlight the evolution
of autochthonous theatrical practices: the interaction between Western and indigenous
African performance traditions; colonial/postcolonial government policies and the
mutations of drama and theatre (and critical commentary); the tensions inherent in
postcolonial conceptions of history, identity, nationhood, and articulations of alternative
aesthetics, pedagogies, and epistemologies for postcolonial African theatre; staging
African plays in the West; and the constituencies of the contemporary African playwright
and director. The strength of these studies derives primarily from nuanced examinations
of the concerns and careers of particular African playwrights; the history, offerings,
and fortunes of particular theatrical arenas, and close explorations of specific performances
and texts. The foregrounding of correspondences in the dramaturgies and intellectual
ferment of the continent critically accentuates equally privileged regional, historical,
and other crucial specificities. Situated in time and place while underscoring the
political and intellectual intersections of a shared history of colonialism, the contributions
to 'Syncretic arenas', individually and collectively, reveal the transformations and
growing strengths of postcolonialism as an analytical strategy
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Diala, Isidore. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Irobi, Esiaba (1960-2010)
Littérature postcoloniale
Genre ou forme : Théâtre (genre littéraire) africain -- 1945-....
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789042038981. - ISBN 9042038985. - ISBN 9789401211802 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb443814178
Notice n° :
FRBNF44381417
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