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Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction: The Library Doors of Classical Africa | 1 | |
1 | Africa's Classical Legacy - Athens' African Legacy | 7 |
Greek Colonization and the Greek Construction of Africa | 8 | |
Afrocentric Classicism | 15 | |
The Impact of Afrocentric Classicism on Greco-African Adaptations | 20 | |
2 | Attic Tragedy - Afric Tragedy | 23 |
Tragedy, Myth, and Orality: Athens and Africa | 24 | |
Homer and Indigenous African Epic | 28 | |
The Introduction of Greek Tragedy to Africa | 30 | |
Postcolonial Theatre, Transculturation, Hybridity, and the Art of Adaptation | 35 | |
Tragic Theory and African Tragic Theory | 44 | |
Summary: Greek Tragedy in Africa | 48 | |
Aristophanes in Africa | 50 | |
3 | Ritual, Roots, and Tragic Form | 53 |
Ritual and Sacrifice in Greece and Africa | 57 | |
A Return to Origins: Song of a Goat | 62 | |
Dionysus and Ogun: The Yoruba Tragedy of Wole Soyinka | 75 | |
Ritual and Revolution: Soyinka and The Bacchae of Euripides | 81 | |
4 | The Voice of the Polis | 99 |
Political Theatre in Athens and Africa: Myth as Civic Lesson | 99 | |
Fate and the State: Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not to Blame | 103 | |
The Household Suffers as Society Suffers: Edufa | 120 | |
South Africa as Tragic Protagonist: Demea | 130 | |
5 | Orestes in South Africa | 143 |
The Myth of Orestes | 143 | |
Orestes the Mother-Killer: Fugard's Orestes | 145 | |
Orestes on Trial: The Song of Jacob Zulu | 153 | |
Changing Orestes, Changing South Africa | 166 | |
6 | African Antigones | 169 |
Antigone in Africa | 169 | |
African and Greek Attitudes to Death, Burial, and the Gods | 173 | |
Antigone in Exile 1: Odale's Choice | 176 | |
Antigone in Exile 2: Tegonni | 181 | |
Antigone Under Apartheid: The Island | 194 | |
Life Mirrors Art: Black Wedding Candles for Blessed Antigone | 203 | |
Conclusion: African Theatre in a Postcultural World | 213 | |
Bibliography | 219 | |
Index | 229 |
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