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Author Balme, Christopher B

Title Decolonizing the stage : theatrical syncretism and post-colonial drama / Christopher B. Balme
Published Oxford : Clarendon, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents 1. Indigenous Theories of Syncretic Theatre -- 2. Ritual Frames and Liminal Dramaturgy -- 3. Language and the Post-Colonial Stage -- 4. Orality as Performance -- 5. Visualizing the Body -- 6. Dance and Body Language -- 7. Spaces and Spectators
Summary A study of post-colonial drama and theatre. It examines how dramatists from various societies have attempted to fuse the performance idioms of their traditions with the Western dramatic form, demonstrating how the dynamics of syncretic theatrical texts function in performance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Drama -- History and criticism.
Theater -- Developing countries
Literature and society -- Developing countries
Postcolonialism in literature.
Drama
Literature and society
Postcolonialism in literature
Theater
Developing countries
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191674266
0191674265
0198184441
9780198184447