TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shipley,Jesse Weaver
TI  - Trickster theatre: the poetics of freedom in urban Africa 
T2  - African expressive cultures
SN  - 9780253016591
AV  - PN2990 .T753 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Theater
KW  - Ghana
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Theater and society
KW  - Tricksters in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
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