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Title:Histories 1850-1950
Editors:Hutchison, YvetteISNI
Plastow, JaneISNI
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]
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