| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Author: |
Conteh-MorganJohn, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
ThomasDominic Richard David, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Bloomington |
| Published: |
Indiana University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xviii, 208 p.). |
| Series: |
African expressive cultures |
| Subject: |
Theater - Caribbean, French-speaking - |
| Subject: |
Caribbean drama (French) - History and criticism - |
| Subject: |
Theater - Africa, French-speaking West - |
| Subject: |
Theater - Africa, French-speaking Equatorial - |
| Subject: |
African drama (French) - History and criticism - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253004581/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-194) and index |
| ISBN: |
9780253004581electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0253004586electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780253355133hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0253355133hbk. |
| ISBN: |
9780253222268pbk. |
| ISBN: |
0253222265pbk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction : instrumentalizing performance and the Francophone postcolonial performative --Cultural trauma and ritual re-membering : Werewere Liking's Les mains veulent dire -- The dramatistas epic performer : Eugene Dervain's Saran, ou la reine scelerate -- The power and the pleasures ofdramatized narrative : Bernard Zadi Zaourou's La guerre des femmes -- Theatre as writing and voice : Patrick Chamoiseau's Manman dlo contre la fee carabosse -- Tradition instrumentalized : Elie Stephenson's O mayouri -- Militariat grotesqueries and tragic lament : Tchicaya u Tam'si's Le destin glorieux du marechal nnikon nniku, prince qu'onsort and le bal de ndinga -- From the grotesque to the fantastic : Sony Labou Tansi's Qui a mange Madame d'Avoine Bergoth? -- Exile and the failure of the nation; or, diasporic subjectivity from below : Simone Schwarz-Bart's Ton beau capitaine -- Conclusion : Francophone theatres in the age of globalization |