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Title:Brecht in Algeria: on the question of influence in Kateb Yacine's late theater
Author:Doshi, Neil
Year:2013
Periodical:Research in African Literatures (ISSN 0034-5210)
Volume:44
Issue:3
Pages:72-86
Language:English
Geographic term:Algeria
Subject:theatre
About person:Kateb Yacine (1929-1989)ISNI
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/research_in_african_literatures/v044/44.3.doshi.pdf
Abstract:This article questions the formative role that Bertolt Brecht is regarded to have had on Algerian writer Kateb Yacine's political theatre in the 1970s and 1980s. While Brecht did indeed play an important role in Algerian theatre in the post-independence era, the assumption that he singularly shaped political theatrical forms in Algeria masks the particular trajectory of Kateb's work. Focusing specifically on his play 'Mohamed prends ta valise', this essay revisits the broad historical and political contexts of Kateb's theatre to underscore the particularity of his practice after 1971 and to broaden the limiting analytic frames that cast his work in Brechtian terms. Attending to the important influence of local folk forms and Marxism-Leninism on Kateb's practice, the author calls attention to both the multiple vectors that shaped his work and further question the flattening effect of metropolitan theatre histories that decontextualize Brechtian practice as they ascribe influence. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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