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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784089603321

Autore

Amkpa Awam <1959-, >

Titolo

Theatre and postcolonial desires / / Awam Amkpa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-38132-8

0-203-34728-5

1-134-38133-6

1-280-07424-8

0-203-49576-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; ; 1

Classificazione

24.11

Disciplina

822.09358

822/.91409358

Soggetti

Theater - Nigeria

Theater - England

Nigerian drama (English) - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-199) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial contests over identity, power and culture through the prism of theatre.



The author examines the work of prominent Nigerian and British playwrights who came of age after the passing of the British Empire.