03211oam 2200697I 450 991078408960332120230617035404.01-134-38132-80-203-34728-51-134-38133-61-280-07424-80-203-49576-410.4324/9780203495766 (CKB)1000000000255546(EBL)182580(OCoLC)475896571(SSID)ssj0000311309(PQKBManifestationID)11276336(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000311309(PQKBWorkID)10328783(PQKB)11425595(MiAaPQ)EBC182580(Au-PeEL)EBL182580(CaPaEBR)ebr10099844(CaONFJC)MIL7424(OCoLC)56340755 (EXLCZ)99100000000025554620180706d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTheatre and postcolonial desires /Awam AmkpaLondon ;New York :Routledge,2004.1 online resource (221 p.)Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ;1Description based upon print version of record.0-415-43544-7 0-415-31287-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-199) and index.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; EnglandJohn 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; IndexThis 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.Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ;1.TheaterNigeriaTheaterEnglandNigerian drama (English)History and criticismTheaterTheaterNigerian drama (English)History and criticism.822.09358822/.9140935824.11bclAmkpa Awam1959-,1555287FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910784089603321Theatre and postcolonial desires3817079UNINA