 Modern African Drama A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION |
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of Contents Preface The Texts of the Plays Tawfik al Hakim, The Fate of a Cockroach (Egypt)  Translated from the Arabic
by Denys Johnson-Davies Kateb Yacine, Intelligence Powder (Algeria) Translated from the French
by Stephen J. Vogel Athol Fugard, John Kani & Winston Nthsona, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead (Republic
of South Africa)Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman (Nigeria) Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, A Collision of Altars (Ethiopia) Ama Ata Aidoo, Dilemma of a Ghost (Ghana) Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii, I Will Marry When I Want (Kenya) Translated from the Gikuyu
by the authors Femi
Osofisan, Esu and the
Vagabond Minstrels
(Nigeria) Backgrounds and Criticism African Drama and Theater Franz Fanon - On National
Culture Wole Soyinka - Theatre in
Traditional African
Societies: Survival Patterns Ngugi wa Thiong'o - Enactments
of Power: The
Politics of Performance SpaceBiodun Jeyifo - The Reinvention
of Theatrical TraditionDon Rubin - African Theatre
in a Global Context Joachim Fiebach - Dimensions
of Theatricality in
Africa David Kerr - Art as Tool,
Weapon or Shield?Tawfik al-Hakim Paul Starkey - [Trends in
the Dramas of Tawfik
al-Hakim] Denys Johnson-Davies - [Introduction
to The Fate of
a Cockroach and Other Plays]Richard Long - [Philosophical
and Psychological
Themes in The Fate of a Cockroach]Kateb Yacine Bernard Aresu - [The Theatrical
Carnivalseque in
Intelligence Powder] Jacqueline Kaye - [Populist
Aesthetics and Idioms in
Kateb Yacine's Theater] Kamal Salhi - The Pragmatics
and Aesthetics of Kateb
Yacine's Theatre Practice Athol Fugard Athol Fugard - [Introduction
to Statements]Russell Vandenbroucke - Robert
Zwelinzima is AliveHilary Seymour - [Artistic
Ambivalence in Sizwe
Bansi Is Dead]Dennis Walder - The Statements
Plays Wole Soyinka Wole Soyinka - Author's Note
to Death and the
King's Horse - Towards a True TheatreAnnemarie Heywood - The Fox's
Dance: The Staging
of Wole Soyinka's Plays Adebayo Williams - [Cultural
Death and the King's
Horseman] Michael Etherton - Tribute
to Wole Soyinka Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin - Author's
Note to A
Collision of Altars Richard Pankhurst - A Collison
of Altars: Notes on
History Biodun Jeyifo - Art and Ideology
in the Plays of
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin Jane Plastow - [Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
and EthiopianReformist
Theater]Ama Ata Aidoo Lloyd Brown - [Oral Tradition
in Dilemma of a
Ghost] C. L. Innes - [Motherhood
in Ama Ata Aidoo's Plays]Vincent O. Odamtten - A Bird
of the Wayside SingsNgugi Wa Thiong'o Nguigi wa Thiong'o - Women
in Cultural Work: The
Fate of the Kamiriithu Theatre in KenyaNicholas Brown - The Problem
of History in the Plays
of Ngugi wa Thiong'o Oliver Lovesay - [On I
Will Marry When I Want]Femi Osofisan Femi Osofisan - [Formal Strategies
and Social
Commentary in My Plays] Sandra Richards - Hegemony
Rests with the AudienceAbiola Irele - [Form, Content,
and Context in Femi
Osofisan's Drama] Chris Dunton - [The Theater
of Femi Osofisan] African Drama: A Chronology Selected Bibliography |
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