Author: Conteh-Morgan, John ; & Olaniyan, Tejumola ; editors:
Title: Drama and Performance [ Research in African Literatures, Volume 30, No. 4, Winter 1999]
Description: Bloomington [IN], Indiana University Press, 1999. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, 240 pp, This is a special issue of the serial "Research in African Literatures", Volume 30, No. 4, Winter 1999.. Minor rubbing. Some top page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contains 13 papers + reviews & notices. Includes: From ghetto to garrison: A chrinic case of Orisunitis / Wole Soyinka -- Theatre and anthropology, theatricality, and culture / Johannes Fabian -- Soyinka, Euripides, and the anxiety of empire / Isidore Okpewho --Revolution and recidivism: The problem of Kenyan history in the plays of Ngugi wa Thiong'o / Nicholas Brown--Femi Osofisan: The form of uncommon sense / Tejumola Olaniyan-- Yoruba gods on the American stage: August Wilson's 'Joe Turner's Come & Gone' / Sanddra L. Richards / Theater for development -TV nation: Notes on an educational soap opera in South Africa / Loren Kruger -- Bin Kadi-So & dramatic innovation / Sidibé Valy -- Gestural interpretation of the occult in Bin Kadi-So adaptation of Macbeth / Marie-José Hourentier--The Turner- Schechner model of performance as social drama: A re-examination in the light of Anlo-Ewe 'Halo' / Daniel Avorgbedor / Modernity's trickster: ' dipping & 'throwing' in Congolese popular dance music / Bob W. White -- Theatricality & social mimodrama / Puis Ngandu Mkkashama-- Dimensions of theatricality in Africa / Joachim Fiebach.

Keywords: African Literary History, Africa, Literature, Drama Criticism, Theater Theatre, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Bin Kadi-So,