Modern African Drama Nce Pa

by Jeyifo,Biodun

• ISBN13: 9780393975291
• ISBN10: 0393975290
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-11
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The first truly continentally representative collection of modern African drama in any language, this Norton Critical Edition includes plays from Egypt, Algeria, the Republic of South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Kenya. "Backgrounds and Criticism" presents documents on modern African drama generally and on the assembled texts and authors specifically, including little-known materials. Featured are essays on Tawfik al-Hakim, Kateb Yacine, Athol Fugard, Wole Soyinka, Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, and Femi Osofisan. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Texts of the Plays
Fate of a Cockroach	3	(61)
Tawfik al-Hakim
Intelligence Powder	64	(28)
Kateb Yacine
Sizwe Bansi Is Dead	92	(34)
Athol Fugard
John Kani
Winston Nitshona
Death and the King's Horseman	126	(52)
Wole Soyinka
Collision of Altars	178	(64)
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
The Dilemma of a Ghost	242	(34)
Ama Ata Aidoo
I Will Marry When I Want	276	(86)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Mirii
Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels	362	(53)
Femi Osofisan
Backgrounds and Criticism
African Drama and Theatre
On National Culture	415	(6)
Frantz Fanon
Theatre in African Traditional Cultures: Survival Patterns	421	(13)
Wole Soyinka
Enactments of Power: The Politics of Performance Space	434	(23)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The Reinvention of Theatrical Tradition	457	(11)
Biodun Jeyifo
African Theatre in a Global Context	468	(3)
Don Rubin
Dimensions of Theatricality in Africa	471	(15)
Joachim Fiebach
Art as Tool, Weapon or Shield?: Arts for Development Seminar, Harare	486	(8)
David Kerr
Tawfik Al-Hakim
[Trends in the Drama of Tawfik al-Hakim]	494	(4)
Paul Starkey
Introduction to ``Fate of a Cockroach'' and Other Plays	498	(2)
Denys Johnson-Davies
[Philosophical and Psychological Themes in Fate of a Cochroach]	500	(6)
Richard Long
Kateb Yacine
[The Theatrical Carnivalesque in Intelligence Powder]	506	(3)
Bernard Aresu
[Populist Aesthetics and Idioms in Kateb Yacine's Theatre]	509	(6)
Jacqueline Kaye
Abdelhamid Zoubir
The Pragmatics and Aesthetics of Kateb Yacine's Theatre Practice	515	(8)
Kamal Salhi
Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona
Introduction to Statements	523	(5)
Athol Fugard
``Robert Zwelinzima Is Alive''	528	(7)
Russell Vandenbroucke
[Artistic Ambivalence in Sizwe Bansi Is Dead]	535	(4)
Hilary Seymour
The Statements Plays	539	(9)
Dennis Walder
Wole Soyinka
Author's Note to Death and the King's Horseman	548	(1)
Wole Soyinka
Towards a True Theatre	549	(3)
Wole Soyinka
The Fox's Dance: The Staging of Soyinka's Plays	552	(9)
Annemarie Heywood
[Cultural Death and the King's Horseman]	561	(5)
Adebayo Williams
Tribute to Wole Soyinka	566	(4)
Michael Etherton
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
Author's Note to Collision of Altars	570	(1)
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
Collision of Altars: Notes on History	571	(3)
Richard Pankhurst
Art and Ideology in the Plays of Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin	574	(4)
Biodun Jeyifo
[Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin and Ethiopian Reformist Theatre]	578	(4)
Jane Plastow
Ama Ata Aidoo
[Oral Tradition in Dilemma of a Ghost]	582	(5)
Lloyd W. Brown
[Motherhood in Ama Ata Aidoo's Plays]	587	(3)
C. L. Innes
A Bird of the Wayside Signs	590	(12)
Vincent O. Odamtten
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Women in Cultural Work: The Fate of the Kamiriithu People's Theatre in Kenya	602	(9)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
I Will Marry When I Want	611	(4)
Oliver Lovesey
Femi Osofisan
[Formal Strategies and Social Commentary in His Plays]	615	(3)
Femi Osofisan
Hegemony Rests with the Audience	618	(8)
Sandra Richards
[Form, Content, and Context in Femi Osofisan's Drama]	626	(5)
Abiola Irele
[The Theatre of Femi Osofisan]	631	(6)
Chris Dunton
African Drama: A Chronology	637	(6)
Selected Bibliography	643