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Recent crime fiction increasingly transcends national boundaries, with investigators operating across countries and continents. Frequently, the detective is a migrant or comes from a transcultural background. To solve the crime, the investigator is called upon to decipher the meaning(s) hidden in clues and testimonies that require transcultural forms of understanding. For the reader, the investigation discloses new interpretive methods and processes of social investigation, often challenging facile interpretations of the postcolonial world order. Under the rubric 'postcolonial postmortems', this collection of essays seeks to explore the tropes, issues and themes that characterise this emergent form of crime fiction. But what does the 'postcolonial' bring to the genre apart from the well-known, and valid, discourses of resistance, subversion and ethnicity? And why 'postmortems'? A dissection and medical examination of a body to determine the cause of death, the 'postmortem' of the postcolonial not only alludes to the investigation of the victim's remains, but also to the body of the individual text and its contexts. This collection interrogates literary concepts of postcoloniality and crime from transcultural perspectives in the attempt to offer new critical impulses to the study of crime fiction and postcolonial literatures. International scholars offer insights into the 'postcolonial postmortems' of a wide range of texts by authors from Africa, South Asia, the Asian and African Diaspora, and Australia, including Robert G. Barrett, Unity Dow, Wessel Ebersohn, Romesh Gunesekera, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sujata Massey, Alexander McCall Smith and Michael Ondaatje.
Sociology of literature --- Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Littérature post-coloniale --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Littératures postcoloniales --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Postcolonialité littéraire --- Postkolonialisme in de literatuur --- Poésie postcoloniale --- Roman postcolonial --- Théâtre postcolonial --- Crime in literature --- Cross-cultural studies --- Detective and mystery stories --- History and criticism --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Cross-cultural studies. --- History and criticism.
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'Diasporas', as used in the title of this volume, refers to a multitude of groups and communities with widely differing histories, identities and current locations. This book brings together essays on theatre by people of African descent in North America, Cuba, Italy, the UK, Israel and Tasmania. Several chapters present overviews of particular national contexts, others offer insights into play texts or specific performances. Offering a mix of academic and practitioner's points of views, Volume 8 in the African Theatre series analyses and celebrates various aspects of African diasporic theatre worldwide. Guest Editors: CHRISTINE MATZKE, Lecturer in African Literatures and Cultures, Humboldt-University, Berlin; and OSITA OKAGBUE, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama, Goldsmiths, University of London. Series Editors: Martin Banham, Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies, University of Leeds; James Gibbs, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of the West of England; Femi Osofisan, Professor at the University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds; Yvette Hutchison, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick.
Theater --- African diaspora in literature. --- Black theater --- Drama --- History --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Drama, Modern --- Dramas --- Dramatic works --- Plays --- Playscripts --- Literature --- Dialogue --- Philosophy --- African Diasporic Theatre. --- African Theatrical Diaspora. --- Canada. --- Cuba. --- Khaled El-Sawy.
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Theatrical science --- Drama --- Thematology
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This collection is dedicated to a distinguished scholar and writer who for a quarter of a century wrote consistently on African literature and the arts and was a major voice in Nigerian literary circles. Ezenwa-Ohaeto made a mark in contemporary Nigerian poetry by committing pidgin to written form and, by so doing, introducing different creative patterns. He also saw himself as a 'minstrel', as someone who wanted to read, express and enact his work before an audience. First and foremost, however, Ezenwa-Ohaeto was someone who 'un-masked' ideas and meanings hidden in the folds of literary works
Critics --- Nigerian literature (English) --- Poets, Nigerian --- Nigerian poets --- English literature --- Nigerian literature --- Literary critics --- Criticism --- Litterateurs --- History and criticism. --- Nigerian authors --- Ezenwa-Ohaeto, --- Ohaeto, Ezenwa, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence.
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Drawing on expertise from across the African continent this collection reflects the realities for women working and making theatre: how Egyptian director Dalia Basiouny has documented the "Tahrir Stories" of the Egyptian Revolution; how in Uganda women have used various theatrical devices, such as oral poetry, to seek common ground in a rural-urban inter-generational theatre project; and the use of physical theatre to examine disavowed memory in South Africa. The contributors also look at how practitioners are re-thinking performance space and modes of performance for gendered advocacy in Botswanan theatre, and how women are addressing gender-based violence and rape culture, comparing performance and street-based activism in South Africa and India. A particular strength of the volume is its interviews: with Jalila Baccar of Tunisia, by Marvin Carlson; six Ethiopian actresses are interviewed and introduced by Jane Plastow and Mahlet Solomon; and Ariane Zaytzeff explores "Making art to reinvent culture" with Odile Gakire Katese of Rwanda. The new play to be published is The Sentence by Sefi Atta, introduced and contextualized by Christine Matzke.
Volume Editors: JANE PLASTOW & YVETTE HUTCHISON Guest Editor: CHRISTINE MATZKE Series Editors: Martin Banham, Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies, University of Leeds; James Gibbs, Senior Visiting ResearchFellow, University of the West of England; Femi Osofisan, Professor of Drama at the University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds; Yvette Hutchison, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick
Theater --- Women in the theater --- Women in the performing arts --- Women dramatists --- Performing arts --- African drama --- African drama (English) --- History --- History and criticism. --- Black drama (African) --- African literature --- Show business --- Arts --- Performance art --- English drama --- African literature (English) --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Acting --- Actors --- Dramatists --- Women authors --- African authors --- 2000-2099 --- Africa. --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Advocacy. --- African Literature. --- African Theatre. --- Contemporary Women. --- Gender. --- Performance Space. --- Performance. --- Theatre. --- Women's Contributions.
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Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music theatre in African and African diasporic contexts.
African drama (English) --- English drama --- African literature (English) --- African authors --- Opera --- Musical theater --- Lyric theater --- Theater --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Opera, Comic --- Operas --- Drama --- Dramatic music --- Singspiel --- History and criticism --- 78.32 --- African diaspora. --- African theatre. --- cultural impact. --- diversity. --- music theatre. --- opera.
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