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Book | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Histories 1850-1950 |
Editors: | Hutchison, Yvette Plastow, Jane |
Year: | 2010 |
Issue: | 9 |
Pages: | 183 |
Language: | English |
Series: | African theatre |
City of publisher: | Oxford |
Publisher: | James Currey |
ISBN: | 1847010148; 9781847010148 |
Geographic terms: | Africa Eritrea Ethiopia Ghana Nigeria South Africa Uganda Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | theatre drama historiography |
About person: | Tekle Hawariat (1884-1977) |
Abstract: | This volume focuses on theatre histories in Africa between 1850 and 1950. The book is introduced by Y. Hutchinson. The contributions are: Looking for 'Eritrea's past property': archives and memories in Eritrean theatre historiography (C. Matzke); Seeking the founding father: the story of Kobina Sekyi's 'The Blinkards' (1916) (Ghana; J. Gibbs); Medieval morality and liturgical drama in colonial Rhodesia: early Christian martyrs dramatized (Zimbabwe; O.S. Seda); Contesting construction of cultural production in and through urban theatre in Rhodesia, c. 1890-1950 (Zimbabwe; S. Ravengai); 'Don't talk into my talk': oral narratives, cultural history and popular performance in colonial Uganda (S. Kasule); The leaf and the soap ('Bí ewé ba pé l'ara ose, á di ose'): a story of appropriation and resistance (Yoruba, Nigeria; C. Boscolo); The representation of Khoiin characters in early Dutch-Afrikaans dramas in South Africa (M. Keuris); Images of Africa in early twentieth-century British theatre (S. Nicholson); The first African play: 'Fabula: Yawreoch Commedia' and its influence on the development of theatre in Ethiopia (J. Plastow); Translator's note: Tekle Hawariat's 'Fabula: Yawreoch Commedia': 'The Comedy of Animals' (B. Abune); and 'Fabula: Yawreoch Commedia', The Comedy of Animals (2nd edition of the translation) (T. Hawariat). [ASC Leiden abstract] |