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Journal articles on the topic "African drama – History and criticism"

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Bula, Andrew. "Literary Musings and Critical Mediations: Interview with Rev. Fr Professor Amechi N. Akwanya." Journal of Practical Studies in Education 2, no. 5 (2021): 26–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.46809/jpse.v2i5.30.

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Reverend Father Professor Amechi Nicholas Akwanya is one of the towering scholars of literature in Nigeria and elsewhere in the world. For decades, and still counting, Fr. Prof. Akwanya has worked arduously, professing literature by way of teaching, researching, and writing in the Department of English and Literary Studies of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. To his credit, therefore, this genius of a literature scholar has singularly authored over 70 articles, six critically engaging books, a novel, and three volumes of poetry. His PhD thesis, Structuring and Meaning in the Nigerian Novel, w
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Zhang, Jinsong. "Discussion on Raymond Williams’ Methodology of Drama Criticism." Journal of Contemporary Educational Research 5, no. 10 (2021): 153–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.26689/jcer.v5i10.2635.

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Raymond Williams is one of the representative figures of British cultural Marxism and British cultural research. His cultural research, especially mass culture research, focuses on literary criticism. Among them, drama criticism is one of Williams’ most important forms of cultural criticism methodology. Williams’ drama criticism is based on drama history criticism. Through the historical analysis of drama content and form as well as the synchronic analysis of modern drama in different historical periods, including the ongoing drama history, Williams proposed the notion of “structures of feelin
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Conteh-Morgan, John. "African Traditional Drama and Issues in Theater and Performance Criticism." Comparative Drama 28, no. 1 (1994): 3–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cdr.1994.0000.

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McEvilla, Joshua, Elizabeth Sharrett, Jennifer Cryar, Cristiano Ragni, and Alice Equestri. "VIII Renaissance Drama: Excluding Shakespeare." Year's Work in English Studies 98, no. 1 (2019): 445–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maz003.

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Abstract This chapter has three sections: 1. Editions and Textual Matters; 2. Theatre History; 3. Criticism. Section 1 is by Joshua McEvilla; section 2 is by Elizabeth Sharrett; section 3(a) is by Jennifer Cryar; section 3(b) is by Cristiano Ragni; section 3(c) is by Alice Equestri.
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Kurdi, Mária. "Samuel Beckett’s Drama in Hungarian Theatre History and Criticism before 1990." Theatron 16, no. 4 (2022): 54–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.55502/the.2022.4.54.

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The international and intercultural aspects of Samuel Beckett’s theatre have been widely recognised by an increasing number of scholarly works in the last few decades. This article offers a study of the pre-1990 reception of Beckett’s drama and theatre in Hungarian criticism and literary and theatre histories. Its focus is on critical and theoretical investigations of three of Beckett’s masterpieces for the stage, Waiting for Godot (1953), Endgame (1957), and Happy Days (1961), provided by Hungarian authors in Hungary or in Hungarian-language forums of the neighbouring countries. While mention
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Hughes, Stephen Putnam. "Music in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Drama, Gramophone, and the Beginnings of Tamil Cinema." Journal of Asian Studies 66, no. 1 (2007): 3–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911807000034.

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During the first half of the twentieth century, new mass media practices radically altered traditional cultural forms and performance in a complex encounter that incited much debate, criticism, and celebration the world over. This essay examines how the new sound media of gramophone and sound cinema took up the live performance genres of Tamil drama. Professor Hughes argues that south Indian music recording companies and their products prefigured, mediated, and transcended the musical relationship between stage drama and Tamil cinema. The music recording industry not only transformed Tamil dra
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Amkpa, Awam. "Review: Drama and the South African State." Literature & History 2, no. 1 (1993): 133–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030619739300200135.

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Cohen, Stephen, and Lawrence J. Ross. "On Measure for Measure: An Essay in Criticism of Shakespeare's Drama." Sixteenth Century Journal 29, no. 2 (1998): 510. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2544531.

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Elam, Harry J. "Testifyin’: Contemporary African Canadian Drama, Volumes 1 and 2." Canadian Theatre Review 118 (June 2004): 117–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.118.021.

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Djanet Sears’s Testifyin’: Contemporary African Canadian Drama, volumes 1 and 2, proudly proclaims the viability and variability of African Canadian drama. While Sears, in her introduction to volume 1, praises the resiliency of African Canadian theatrical production, she also remarks on the poor funding available at present for contemporary Black theatre companies and the limited recognition that African Canadian drama has garnered within the annals of Canadian theatre history. To rectify this absence, Sears has collected ten plays in volume 1 and nine additional plays in volume 2 – plays by a
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Osinubi, Taiwo. "African Queer Autobiographics: Drama, Disclosure, and Pedagogy." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 35, no. 3 (2020): 749–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2020.1766202.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African drama – History and criticism"

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Sirayi, Mziwoxolo. "The characteristics of some Xhosa dramas." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002173.

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This study aims at highlighting some crucial aspects of Xhosa drama. These aspects are of great significance for the understanding of Xhosa drama. It also aims to historicize and contextualize examinations of traditional Xhosa drama and modern Xhosa drama.
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Brelage, Elna. "Die radiodrama in isiZulu met verwysing na die werk van D.B.Z. Ntuli." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2002. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10132005-085945/.

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Hutchison, Yvette. ""Memory is a weapon" : the uses of history and myth in selected post-1960 Kenyan, Nigerian and South African plays." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51338.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 1999.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In hierdie proefskrif word gekyk na die verwantskap tussen geskiedenis, mite, geheue en teater. Daar word ook gekyk na die mate waartoe historiese of mitiese toneelstukke gebruik kan word om die amptelike geheue en identiteite, soos deur bewindhebbers in post-koloniale Nigerie en Kenya geskep, terug kon wen of uit kon daag. Hierdie werke word dan vergelyk met die soort teater wat tydens die Apartheidbewind in Suid-Afrika geskep is, om verskille en ooreenkomste in die gebruik van historiese en mitiese gegewens te bekyk. Di
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Makosana, Nomkhitha Ethley. "A comparative study of six Xhosa radio dramas." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/69076.

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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 1991.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is based on the comparison of six Xhosa radio dramas spanning the period 1987 and 1988. The main objective is to investigate the strengths and weaknesses which manifest themselves in the dramas. The dramas are compared with respect to the six structural elements of drama viz., theme, plot, characterization, time and space, and the techniques of production.Themes are studied to establish whether there have been any developments as far as the choice of themes is concerned in Xhosa radio dramas or whether there has
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Haxton, Robert Peter. "Refusal and rupture as a postdramatic revolt : an analysis of selected South African contemporary devised performances with particular focus on works by First Physical Theatre Company and the Rhodes University Drama Department." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015671.

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This mini-thesis investigates the concepts of refusal and rupture as a postdramatic revolt and how these terms can be applied and read within the context of analysing contemporary devised performance in South Africa. The argument focuses on the efficacy of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s postdramatic terminology and the potential of its use in an appreciation of contemporary performance analysis. I investigate the potential in South African contemporary devised performance practice to challenge prevailing modes of traditional dramatic expectation in order to restore the experience of discovery and questi
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Hjul, Lauren Martha. "The family in Shakespeare's plays: a study of South African revisions." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001832.

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This thesis provides a detailed consideration of the family in Shakespeare’s canon and the engagement therewith in three South African novels: Hill of Fools (1976) by R. L. Peteni, My Son’s Story (1990) by Nadine Gordimer, and Disgrace (1999) by J. M. Coetzee. The study is divided into an introduction, three chapters each addressing one of the South African novels and its relationship with a Shakespeare text or texts, and a conclusion. The introductory chapter provides an analysis of the two strands of criticism in which the thesis is situated – studies of the family in Shakespeare and studies
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Yantolo-Sotyelelwa, Betty Matase. "The portrayal of characters through dialogue and action in isiXhosa drama : dramatic and cultural perspectives." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/3361.

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Thesis (MA (African Languages))--University of Stellenbosch, 2005.<br>This study aims at highlighting one of the crucial aspects of Xhosa drama: how women have been regarded by a variety of communities as being inferior to men. This stereotype pervades almost all spheres of life. The low status assigned to women find its way into literature as well. Ngewu’s drama “Yeha mfazi obulala indoda” and Taleni’s drama “Nyana nank’uNyoko” has been examined. In most Xhosa literature, women are portrayed as submissive, obedient and minor characters. The advent of Ngewu’s work changed this scenario by port
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De, Wagter Caroline. "Mouths on fire with songs: negotiating multi-ethnic identities on the contemporary North american stage." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210237.

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A travers une étude interculturelle détaillée et comparée de la production théâtrale minoritaire canadienne et américaine, ma thèse cherche à mettre en lumière les les apports thématiques et esthétiques du théâtre multi-ethnicque nord-américain contemporain à la tradition anglo-américaine du 20ème siècle. Les communautés asiatiques, africaines et aborigènes sont retenues comme poste d'observation privilégié de l'expression esthétique de la condition multiculturelle postcoloniale dans le théâtre nord-américain de la période allant de 1972 à nos jours. Sur base d'un corpus de pièces de théâtre,
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Munyangane, Nditsheni Norman. "Tsenguluso ya u tambudzwa ha vhanna nga vhafumakadzi kha dirama dza Mahamba, Netshirando na Muyai na Netshivhuyu." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1255.

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Thesis (MA. (African Languages)) --University of Limpopo, 2014<br>Ṱhoḓisiso iyi yo sengulusa u tambudzwa ha vhanna nga vhafumakadzi kha ḓirama dza Mahamba (1989), Ṋetshiranḓo na Munyai (2007) na Ṋetshivhuyu (1989). U tambudzwa ha vhanna nga vhafumakadzi hu khou bvelela fhedzi a hu dzhielwi nṱha. Muvhuso na Madzangano a si a Muvhuso a simesa u amba nga ha u tambudzwa ha vhana na vhafumakadzi ngeno vha sa iti zwo linganaho kha u lwa na u tambudzwa ha vhanna nga vhafumakadzi.
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Mtsotsoyi, Edith Ntombizodwa. "Impixano njengoyena ndoqo kwidrama yesixhosa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1061.

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Thesis (MA (African Languages))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to explore conflict in the two dramas under study. Conflict is one of the cornerstones of drama and it is the most significant element of plot. An investigation is done of the two dramas under study: Inene nasi isibhozo by Mthingane (1965) and Buzani Kubawo by Tamsanqa (1958). Both dramas depict Xhosa cultural properties, and its impact on character portrayal in the dramas. The study has the following organization: Chapter 1: Purpose and aims of the study. Chapter 2: Review of l
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Books on the topic "African drama – History and criticism"

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1946-, Jeyifo Biodun, ed. Modern African drama: Backgrounds and criticism. W.W. Norton, 2002.

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John, Conteh-Morgan, and Olaniyan Tejumola, eds. African drama and performance. Indiana University Press, 2004.

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Eziechine, Austin Obiajulu. Introduction to African drama. Krisbec Publications, 2005.

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Agoro, S. N. A. Topics in modern African drama. Caltop Publications (Nigeria), 2001.

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Lare, Damlègue. Modern African drama: Critical and theoretical approaches. Galda Verlag, 2019.

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Eckhard, Breitinger, and Sander Reinhard, eds. Drama and theatre in Africa. Bayreuth University, 1986.

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Martin, Banham, Gibbs James, and Osofisan Femi, eds. African theatre in development. James Currey, 1999.

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Banham, Martin, Femi Osofisan, Jane Plastow, and James Gibbs. African theatre in development. Edited by Banham Martin, Gibbs James, Osofisan Femi, and Plastow Jane. James Curry, 1999.

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Orkin, Martin. Drama and the South African state. Manchester University Press, 1991.

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Theatre and drama in Francophone Africa: A critical introduction. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "African drama – History and criticism"

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Saber, Fathieh Hussam. "Shellyseer: A Literary Evolution." In Gulf Studies. Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7796-1_22.

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AbstractThe dramatic elements that are in Shellyseer have traveled for a long period of time and have been affected by dramatic elements from different cultures, which means that Shellyseer is a result of the evolution of drama. This chapter draws attention to the effect that the East and the West have on each other, by pointing out the effect that Aristotle’s Poetics—Western Theory—had on Ghanem Al-Suliti’s Shellyseer—Eastern Literature. This chapter combines comparative literature with literary theory and criticism in order to give an example of a globalized view of how drama evolves where there are no borders that limit influence. This chapter traces back drama back to its oldest documented sources to show how it evolved throughout history and offers deeper knowledge of Middle Eastern drama, the importance, and strength of political satire, and how strong of a mutual influence Eastern and Western literature have on each other.
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Schwaderer, Isabella. "Death and Transfiguration: Religion and Belonging in Felix Gotthelf’s Indian Opera Mahadeva (1910)." In Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40375-0_5.

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AbstractDoctor, composer, and Schopenhauer enthusiast Felix Gotthelf (1857–1930) created a symphonic drama Mahadeva (1910) in which he transformed a Goethe ballad into a religious–artistic manifesto. He combined Indian philosophy, as popularized by Paul Deussen, with Christianity and Schopenhauer’s philosophy. Inspired by Richard Wagner, he attempted an Indo-German national and religious revival in music based on a romantic conception of art and religion. It was in effect a conservative reorientation of a philosophical and artistic appropriation of Indian scriptures that betrayed attempts to establish the social ethos of the late German Empire as autochthonous and within the tradition of German intellectual and Reformation history. The author’s contribution is to examine the interconnections between religion, national revival, and music in the context of widespread cultural criticism shortly before the First World War.
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Wilkerson, Margaret B. "Political Radicalism and Artistic Innovation in the Works of Lorraine Hansberry." In African American Performance and Theater History. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195127249.003.0003.

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Abstract Lorraine Hansberry (figure 2.1) was a visionary playwright whose belief in humankind’s potential to overcome its own excesses of avarice, oppression, and inhumanity compelled her to raise provocative questionson the American stage. Ironically, her success with A Raisin in the Sun, which won the 1959 New York Drama Critics Circle Award and which won acclaim from white as well as black audiences during its Broadway production, led some critics to view her work as integrationist and accommodationist. A virile, confrontational Black Arts Movement in the 1960s, which challenged its parent, the Civil Rights Movement, following Hansberry’s death, seemed to eclipse her work and to label it as “old-fashioned,” both in form and content. How ever, persistent voices continued to claim for Hansberry a more radical stance, and during the 1990s, they have been joined by some of her earlier detractors. A close examination of two of her plays, A Raisin in the Sun and Les Blancs, combined with information about her sources and facts about her life affirm a political stance more radical than previously recognized and artistic choices that challenge the boundaries of theatrical realism.
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Osborne, John. "Theories of drama." In The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cho9781139018456.036.

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Novak, Maximillian E. "Drama, 1660-1740." In The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge University Press, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521300094.006.

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Osborne, John. "Drama, after 1740." In The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge University Press, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521300094.007.

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Wimsatt, William K., and Cleanth Brooks. "Fiction and Drama: The Gross Structure." In Literary Criticism: A Short History. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003141013-7.

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Lee-Price, Simon. "African American literary history and criticism." In The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Cambridge University Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521300148.021.

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Johnson, David. "Literary and cultural criticism in South Africa." In The Cambridge History of South African Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521199285.041.

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Jackson, Lawrence P. "African American literature: foundational scholarship, criticism, and theory." In The Cambridge History of African American Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521872171.029.

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