African Theatre and Politics : : A Comparative Study.

• Superior document: Cross/Cultures
• VerfasserIn: Plastow, Jane,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1996.; ©1996.
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/Cultures
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 The Colonial Theatre -- The performance forms -- Dance-drama -- Drama -- Orature -- Pre-colonial literature -- Feudalism and communalism -- 2 Conformity, Christianity and Suppression: The Early Colonial Theatre -- Ethiopia -- Amhara imperialism -- The first plays -- The Italian occupation and after -- Tanganyika -- Formation and colonization -- The development of indigenous theatre forms -- Colonial cultural forms -- Drama -- Southern Rhodesia -- Colonization: from 1890 to 1965 -- The repression of indigenous culture -- Promoting a new theatre -- White theatre -- White Rhodesian plays -- 3 Theatre in Liberation Struggles -- Tanganyika -- Political struggle -- The role of culture -- Ethiopia -- The rise of political awareness -- The reformist theatre -- The new drama -- The Creative Arts Centre -- Actors and theatres -- Southern Rhodesia -- The armed struggle 1965-1980 -- The theatres of separate development -- Escapism and exclusivity: the white theatre -- "Kind" Whites and "good" Blacks: official African performance -- Black drama groups and festivals -- Liberation arts -- 4 A Time of Hope: The Theatre of Independence -- Tanzania -- Nyerere, Nationalism and Ujamaa -- Early post-independence theatre -- The impetus of Arusha -- The intellectual drama -- Government sponsored theatre -- Ethiopia -- The end of an empire -- The early revolutionary theatre -- The PMAC and the theatre -- Changing relations with government -- Plays in the professional theatres, 1976-1979 -- Zimbabwe -- The question of nation building -- Towards a new culture -- The ZIMFEP initiative -- University drama -- "Amakhosi Theatre Productions" and the Bulawayo Association of Drama Groups -- Published drama.

5 Disillusion and Debate: The Contemporary Theatres -- Tanzania -- The apotheosis of the one-party state? -- Complacency and conformity: state arts -- The University and intellectual drama -- Popular performance art and cultural troupes -- Ethiopia -- A government in crisis -- A new beginning? -- The Theatre Arts Department -- The Amateur Arts Programme -- State control and the professional theatres -- Plays of the Eighties -- Theatre under the transitional government -- Zimbabwe -- A problem of credibility -- State attitudes to the performing arts -- Funding the theatres -- The independent arts -- The contemporary plays -- Annex A: Informants -- Bibliography -- Index.