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9780415312875

Theatre and Postcolonial Desires

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415312875

  • ISBN10:

    0415312876

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-12-03
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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. Defining theatre as a symbolic interpretation of social reality, the conventions of which generate and sustain cultural power, this book examines the colonial and postcolonial forms of such power in Britain and Nigeria in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Author Biography

Awam Amkpa is currently an Associate Professor of Drama at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations ix
Foreword by Ngúgz wa T hiong'o xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: from colonial modernity to postcolonial desires: oppositional theatre in Nigeria and England 1(18)
PART 1 Nigeria 19(94)
1 Wole Soyinka: theatre, mythology, and political activism
21(25)
2 Femi Osofisan: theatre, nation, and the revolutionary ideal
46(16)
3 Tess Onwueme: theatre, gender, and power
62(14)
4 The Yoruba Traveling Theatres: popular theatre and desires for postcolonial subjectivity
76(18)
5 Theatre, democracy, and community development: Ahmadu Bello University and the Nigerian Popular Theatre Alliance
94(19)
PART 2 England 113(70)
6 John Arden: dramatizing the colonial nation
115(12)
7 David Edgar: the nation's theatre and its anticolonial scribe
127(17)
8 Caryl Churchill: decolonizing the nation through gender and class
144(17)
9 Monstrosities, deviants, and darkies: Monstrous Regiment, Gay Sweatshop, and black theatre
161(22)
Conclusion 183(5)
Notes 188(13)
Index 201

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