LEADER 05685nam 2200601 450 001 9910824703303321 005 20230803200050.0 010 $a94-012-1180-9 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401211802 035 $a(CKB)2670000000578296 035 $a(EBL)1812990 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001440814 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11889698 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001440814 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11391386 035 $a(PQKB)11734636 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1812990 035 $a(OCoLC)893409261$z(OCoLC)893454101 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401211802 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1812990 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10992232 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL665230 035 $a(OCoLC)897069761 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000578296 100 $a20141219h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSyncretic arenas $eessays on postcolonial African drama and theatre for Esiaba Irobi /$fedited by Isidore Diala 210 1$aAmsterdam, Netherlands ;$aNew York :$cRodopi,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (381 p.) 225 1 $aCross/Cultures. Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English ;$v177 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-33948-1 311 $a90-420-3898-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPreliminary Material -- $tEsiaba Irobi: The Tragedy of Exile /$rOlu Oguibe -- $tEsiaba Irobi: A Personal Note /$rMartin Banham -- $tEsiaba Irobi and His Muse /$rGeorgina Alaukwu?Ehuriah -- $tRemembering Esiaba Irobi: at the International Research Centre ?Interweaving Performance Cultures? in Berlin, 2009?2010 /$rErika Fischer?Lichte -- $tEsiaba Irobi: Death Does Not Kill a Song /$rFemi Osofisan -- $tOn My Birthday /$rTanure Ojaide -- $tOmonla:* Your Like Will Never Be There Again: 7 Prose Poems/Haikus [For Esiaba Irobi] /$rBiodun Jeyifo -- $tHalf a Century Death /$rBenedictus Nwachukwu -- $tMadding Crowd (For Esiaba Irobi and Kofi Awoonor) /$rObiwu -- $tSeven Stations of the Cross (for Esiaba Irobi) /$rOlu Oguibe -- $tEsiaba Irobi?s Legacy: Theory and Practice of Postcolonial Performance -- $tBetween Soyinka and Clark: The Dynamics of Influence on Esiaba Irobi?s Nwokedi /$rHenry Obi Ajumeze -- $tEclipsed Visions: Esiaba Irobi Interviewed /$rLeon Osu -- $tTheatre and Modernization in the First Age of Globalization: The Cairo Opera House /$rChristopher Balme -- $tAutobiography as Counter-Memory in The Orange Earth of Adam Small /$rHein Willemse -- $tDirecting Politics: Soyinkan Parallels in the Works of Uganda?s Robert Serumaga /$rDon Rubin -- $tAfrika Cultural Centre: Phoenix under Apartheid and Burnt Ember under Democracy? /$rBhekizizwe Peterson -- $tThe Anxiety of Class in Kenyan Drama: A Reading of Boy?s Benta and Sibi-Okumu?s Role Play /$rChristopher Odhiambo Joseph -- $tA Heritage of Violence: Paradoxes of Freedom and Memory in Recent South African Play-Texts /$rAnton Krueger -- $tAfrican Drama and the Construction of an Indigenous Cultural Identity: An Examination of Four Major Nigerian Plays /$rKene Igweonu -- $tThe Creative Development, Importance, and Dramaturgy of Duro Ladipo?s ?ba Kò So /$rOluseyi Ogunjobi -- $tCritical Responses: The Evolution of the Theatre Critic in South Africa /$rTemple Hauptfleisch -- $t?I want to dialogue?: Chief Muraina Oyelami Talking O?ogbo and Beyond /$rChristine Matzke -- $tNotes on Contributors -- $tIndex. 330 $aThis collection in part examines the legacy of the consummate Nigerian stage artist and scholar, Esiaba Irobi (1960?2010). Poems, tributes, and studies celebrate Irobi?s significance as actor, playwright, director, poet, and theatre theorist. Irobi?s life, temper, times, and career are inextricably linked to the history, development, concerns, and uses of drama and theatre in Africa. The contributions highlight the evolution of autochthonous theatrical practices: the interaction between Western and indigenous African performance traditions; colonial/postcolonial government policies and the mutations of drama and theatre (and critical commentary); the tensions inherent in postcolonial conceptions of history, identity, nationhood, and articulations of alternative aesthetics, pedagogies, and epistemologies for postcolonial African theatre; staging African plays in the West; and the constituencies of the contemporary African playwright and director. The strength of these studies derives primarily from nuanced examinations of the concerns and careers of particular African playwrights; the history, offerings, and fortunes of particular theatrical arenas, and close explorations of specific performances and texts. The foregrounding of correspondences in the dramaturgies and intellectual ferment of the continent critically accentuates equally privileged regional, historical, and other crucial specificities. Situated in time and place while underscoring the political and intellectual intersections of a shared history of colonialism, the contributions to Syncretic Arenas , individually and collectively, reveal the transformations and growing strengths of postcolonialism as an analytical strategy. 410 0$aCross/cultures ;$v177. 606 $aAfrican drama$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAfrican drama$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.20096 702 $aDiala$b Isidore 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824703303321 996 $aSyncretic arenas$93958131 997 $aUNINA