The Politics of Adaptation Contemporary African Drama and Greek Tragedy
This book explores contemporary African adaptations of classical Greek tragedies. Six South African and Nigerian dramatic texts - by Yael Farber, Mark Fleishman, Athol Fugard, Femi Osofisan, and Wole Soyinka - are analysed through the thematic lens of resistance, revolution, reconciliation, and mour...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi
2013.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Cross/Cultures ; v.165. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b30795023*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Contemporary African Drama and Greek Tragedy; 1 African Antigones: ""Wherever the call for freedom is heard!"" Antigone's politics
- The choice of Antigone
- Antigone's representation
- Performing Antigone
- Beyond Antigone?
- Antigone's futures; 2 Ritual and Revolution: Wole Soyinka's Bacchae, a Yoruba Tragedy (Post)colonial Thebes
- Revolutionary Dionysus
- Sacrifice and the mythologization of history
- Yoruba and Greek: a complicated brotherhood
- The terms of comparison.
- 3 Staging Transition:The Oresteia in Post-Apartheid South Africa Narrating the past
- Victims and perpetrators
- Theatre of witnessing andmourning
- Justice: definitions and demands
- The politics ofreconciliation
- The weight of the past4 Mourning Remains: Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu The mourning voice
- Memory and promise
- Gendered laments
- Re/membering the past
- The promise of change
- Mourning others; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index.
