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Trickster theatre : the poetics of freedom in urban Africa / Jesse Weaver Shipley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253016591
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN2990 .T753 2015
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Contents:
Introduction: poetics of duality and uncertainty -- History and mediations in making theatre -- Making culture : race, history, and a theory of performance in the Gold Coast colony -- The national theatre movement : urban art infrastructures and a contested national culture in independence-era Accra -- Revolutionary storytelling : Pan-African theatre and remaking lost futures in 1980s Ghana -- A man of the people : Mohammed Ben Abdallah as artist-politician -- Stagings in millennial Ghana -- Total African theatre : language, reflexivity, and ambiguity in The witch of Mopti -- "The best tradition goes on" : audience, consumption, and the structural transformation of Concert Party popular theatre -- Fake pastors and real comedians : doubling and parody in miraculous, charismatic performance -- Copying independence : backstage at the fiftieth-anniversary re-enactment of Nkrumah's independence speech -- Epilogue: unfreedom as critical theory.
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Introduction: poetics of duality and uncertainty -- History and mediations in making theatre -- Making culture : race, history, and a theory of performance in the Gold Coast colony -- The national theatre movement : urban art infrastructures and a contested national culture in independence-era Accra -- Revolutionary storytelling : Pan-African theatre and remaking lost futures in 1980s Ghana -- A man of the people : Mohammed Ben Abdallah as artist-politician -- Stagings in millennial Ghana -- Total African theatre : language, reflexivity, and ambiguity in The witch of Mopti -- "The best tradition goes on" : audience, consumption, and the structural transformation of Concert Party popular theatre -- Fake pastors and real comedians : doubling and parody in miraculous, charismatic performance -- Copying independence : backstage at the fiftieth-anniversary re-enactment of Nkrumah's independence speech -- Epilogue: unfreedom as critical theory.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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