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UNINA9910784089603321 |
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Autore |
Amkpa Awam <1959-, > |
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Titolo |
Theatre and postcolonial desires / / Awam Amkpa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-38132-8 |
0-203-34728-5 |
1-134-38133-6 |
1-280-07424-8 |
0-203-49576-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (221 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; ; 1 |
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Soggetti |
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Theater - Nigeria |
Theater - England |
Nigerian drama (English) - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-199) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword by Ngg wa Thiong'o; Acknowledgments; Introduction: from colonial modernity to postcolonial desires: oppositional theatre in Nigeria and England; Nigeria; Wole Soyinka: theatre, mythology, and political activism; Femi Osofisan: theatre, nation, and the revolutionary ideal; Tess Onwueme: theatre, gender, and power; The Yoruba Traveling Theatres: popular theatre and desires for postcolonial subjectivity; Theatre, democracy, and community development: Ahmadu Bello University and the Nigerian Popular Theatre Alliance; England |
John Arden: dramatizing the colonial nationDavid Edgar: the nation's theatre and its anticolonial scribe; Caryl Churchill: decolonizing the nation through gender and class; Monstrosities, deviants, and darkies: Monstrous Regiment, Gay Sweatshop, and black theatre; Conclusion; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial contests over identity, power and culture through the prism of theatre. |
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