This book explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial contests over identity, power and culture through the prism of theatre. The author examines the work of prominent Nigerian and British playwrights who came of age after the passing of the British Empire.
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Awam Ampka is currently Associate Professor of Drama at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He trained in Nigeria under Wole Soyinka and completed a PhD in Drama at the University of Bristol. He is the author of critical essays, plays (Not in my Season of Songs; Ajasco), director of film documentaries (Winds Against Our Souls; It's All About Downtown; National Images/Transnational Desires) and the feature film Wazabia.
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overlapping modernities, postcolonial desire, informal citizenship, traveling theatres, anticolonial nationalism, colonial modernity, anticolonial resistance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Fourth Stage, Wole Soyinka, Yoruba Traveling Theatre, David Edgar, Monstrous Regiment, John Arden, Caryl Churchill, Gay Sweatshop, British Empire, Labour Party, Tess Onwueme, Margaret Thatcher, Vinegar Tom, West Africa, Second World War, Act Two, Once Upon Four Robbers, Ferri Osofisan, Major Rolfe, Act One, Biodun Jeyifo, The Reign of Wazobia, Black British, Conservative Party, Praise Singer Browse Sample Pages:
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overlapping modernities, postcolonial desire, informal citizenship, traveling theatres, anticolonial nationalism, colonial modernity, anticolonial resistance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Fourth Stage, Wole Soyinka, Yoruba Traveling Theatre, David Edgar, Monstrous Regiment, John Arden, Caryl Churchill, Gay Sweatshop, British Empire, Labour Party, Tess Onwueme, Margaret Thatcher, Vinegar Tom, West Africa, Second World War, Act Two, Once Upon Four Robbers, Ferri Osofisan, Major Rolfe, Act One, Biodun Jeyifo, The Reign of Wazobia, Black British, Conservative Party, Praise Singer Browse Sample Pages:
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- A Boal Companion: Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics by Mady Schutzman in Front Matter, and page 172
- Brecht and Critical Theory: Dialectics and Contemporary Aesthetics (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies) by Sean Carney in Front Matter
- Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies) by Jonathan Pitches in Front Matter
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