African Drama and Performance Book

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Tejumola Olaniyan and John
Conteh-Morgan
Part 1. General Contexts
1. TBA
Wole
Soyinka
2. Dimensions of Theatricality in Africa
Joachim
Fiebach
3. Theater and Anthropology, Theatricality and
Culture
Johannes Fabian
4. Pre-Texts and Intermedia: African
Theater and the Question of History
Ato Quayson
Part 2.
Intercultural Negotiations
5. Soyinka, Euripides, and the Anxiety of
Empire
Isidore Okpewho
6. Antigone in the "Land of the
Incorruptible": Sylvain Bemba's Noces posthumes pour Santigone (Black Wedding
Candles for Blessed- Antigone)
John Conteh-Morgan
7. Gestural
Interpretation of the Occult in the Bin Kadi-So Adaptation of
Macbeth
Marie-José Hourantier
8. Yoruba Gods on the American
Stage: August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Sandra L.
Richards
Part 3. Radical Politics and Aesthetics
9. Femi Osofisan:
The Form of Uncommon Sense
Tejumola Olaniyan
10. Revolution and
Recidivism: The Problem of Kenyan History in the Plays of Ngugi wa
Thiong'o
Nicholas Brown
11. The Politics and Theater of Sony Labou
Tansi
Dominic Thomas
Part 4. Popular Expressive Genres and the
Performance of Culture
12. Theater for Development and TV Nation: Notes on
Educational Soap Opera in South Africa
Loren Kruger
13. Literacy,
Improvisation, and the Virtual Script in Yoruba Popular Theater
Karin
Barber
14. Modernity's Trickster: "Dipping" and "Throwing" in Congolese
Popular Dance Music
Bob W. White
15. How They See It: The Politics
and Aesthetics of Nigeria Video Films
Akin Adesokan
Part 5. The
Social as Drama
16. The Turner-Schechner Model of Performance as Social
Drama: A Re-examination in Light of Anlo-Ewe Haló
Daniel
Avorgbedor
17. Theaters of Truth, Acts of Reconciliation: The TRC in South
Africa
Catherine Cole
18. Theatricality and Social
Mimodrama
Pius Ngandu
Nkashama
Bibliography
Contributors
Index