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Author Irobi, Esiaba, 1960-2010.

Title Syncretic arenas : essays on postcolonial African drama and theatre for Esiaba Irobi / edited by Isidore Diala
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2014

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Cross cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English
Cross/cultures ; 177
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; PART ONE; Esiaba Irobi: The Tragedy of Exile; Esiaba Irobi: A Personal Note; Esiaba Irobi and His Muse; Remembering Esiaba Irobi at the International Research Centre ""Interweaving Performance Cultures"" in Berlin, 2009-2010; Esiaba Irobi: Death Does Not Kill a Song; On My Birthday; Omonla: Your Like Will Never Be There Again -- 7 Prose Poems/Haikus; Half a Century Death; Madding Crowd; Seven Stations of the Cross
Esiaba Irobi's Legacy: Theory and Practice of Postcolonial Performance Between Soyinka and Clark: The Dynamics of Influence on Esiaba Irobi's Nwokedi; Eclipsed Visions: Esiaba Irobi Interviewed; ESIABA ALONE AND IN COMPANY: A PHOTO GALLERY; PART TWO; Theatre and Modernization in the First Age of Globalization: The Cairo Opera House; Autobiography as Counter-Memory in The Orange Earth of Adam Small; Directing Politics: Soyinkan Parallels in the Works of Uganda's Robert Serumaga; Afrika Cultural Centre: Phoenix Under Apartheid and Burnt Ember Under Democracy?
The Anxiety of Class in Kenyan Drama: A Reading of Boy's Benta and Sibi-Okumu's Role PlayA Heritage of Violence: Paradoxes of Freedom and Memory in Recent South African Play-Texts; African Drama and the Construction of an Indigenous Cultural Identity: An Examination of Four Major Nigerian Plays; The Creative Development, Importance, and Dramaturgy of Duro Ladipo's Ọba Kò So; Critical Responses: The Evolution of the Theatre Critic in South Africa; ""I want to dialogue"": Chief Muraina Oyelami Talking Oṣogbo and Beyond; Notes on Contributors; Index
Summary This collection in part examines the legacy of the consummate Nigerian stage artist and scholar, Esiaba Irobi (1960-2010). Poems, tributes, and studies celebrate Irobi's significance as actor, play wright, director, poet, and theatre theorist. Irobi's life, temper, times, and career are inextricably linked to the history, development, concerns, and uses of drama and theatre in Africa. The contributions high light the evolution of autochthonous theatrical practices: the interaction between Western and Indigenous African performance traditions; colonial/postcolonial government policies and t
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 13, 2014)
Subject Irobi, Esiaba, 1960-2010.
SUBJECT Irobi, Esiaba, 1960-2010 fast
Subject African drama -- History and criticism -- 20th century
African drama -- History and criticism -- 21st century
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
African drama
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Diala, Isidore.
ISBN 9789401211802
9401211809