Syncretic arenas : : essays on postcolonial African drama and theatre for Esiaba Irobi /

Syncretic arenas : : essays on postcolonial African drama and theatre for Esiaba Irobi / / edited by Isidore Diala.

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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, playwright, director, poet, and theatre theorist. Irobi’s life, temper, times, and career are inextricably...

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Superior document:Cross/Cultures. Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English ; 177
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Diala, Isidore,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Cross/cultures ; 177.
Physical Description:1 online resource (381 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Esiaba Irobi: The Tragedy of Exile / Olu Oguibe
  • Esiaba Irobi: A Personal Note / Martin Banham
  • Esiaba Irobi and His Muse / Georgina Alaukwu–Ehuriah
  • Remembering Esiaba Irobi: at the International Research Centre ‘Interweaving Performance Cultures’ in Berlin, 2009–2010 / Erika Fischer–Lichte
  • Esiaba Irobi: Death Does Not Kill a Song / Femi Osofisan
  • On My Birthday / Tanure Ojaide
  • Omonla:* Your Like Will Never Be There Again: 7 Prose Poems/Haikus [For Esiaba Irobi] / Biodun Jeyifo
  • Half a Century Death / Benedictus Nwachukwu
  • Madding Crowd (For Esiaba Irobi and Kofi Awoonor) / Obiwu
  • Seven Stations of the Cross (for Esiaba Irobi) / Olu Oguibe
  • Esiaba Irobi’s Legacy: Theory and Practice of Postcolonial Performance
  • Between Soyinka and Clark: The Dynamics of Influence on Esiaba Irobi’s Nwokedi / Henry Obi Ajumeze
  • Eclipsed Visions: Esiaba Irobi Interviewed / Leon Osu
  • Theatre and Modernization in the First Age of Globalization: The Cairo Opera House / Christopher Balme
  • Autobiography as Counter-Memory in The Orange Earth of Adam Small / Hein Willemse
  • Directing Politics: Soyinkan Parallels in the Works of Uganda’s Robert Serumaga / Don Rubin
  • Afrika Cultural Centre: Phoenix under Apartheid and Burnt Ember under Democracy? / Bhekizizwe Peterson
  • The Anxiety of Class in Kenyan Drama: A Reading of Boy’s Benta and Sibi-Okumu’s Role Play / Christopher Odhiambo Joseph
  • A Heritage of Violence: Paradoxes of Freedom and Memory in Recent South African Play-Texts / Anton Krueger
  • African Drama and the Construction of an Indigenous Cultural Identity: An Examination of Four Major Nigerian Plays / Kene Igweonu
  • The Creative Development, Importance, and Dramaturgy of Duro Ladipo’s Ọba Kò So / Oluseyi Ogunjobi
  • Critical Responses: The Evolution of the Theatre Critic in South Africa / Temple Hauptfleisch
  • “I want to dialogue”: Chief Muraina Oyelami Talking Oṣogbo and Beyond / Christine Matzke
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index.

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