Shipley, Jesse Weaver, <br/><br/>
Trickster theatre :  the poetics of freedom in urban Africa / 
Jesse Weaver Shipley. 
 - Bloomington :  Indiana University Press,  (c)2015. 
 - 1 online resource :  illustrations. 
 - African expressive cultures .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780253016591 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Theater--History--Ghana--20th century.<br/>Theater and society--Ghana.<br/>Tricksters in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN2990  / .T753 2015