Myth Performance in the African Diasporas: Ritual, Theatre, by Benita Brown,Dannabang Kuwabong,Christopher Olsen
By Benita Brown,Dannabang Kuwabong,Christopher Olsen
In
Myth functionality within the African Diasporas: Ritual, Theatre, and Dance, the authors contend that functionality traditions throughout inventive disciplines display a shared—if occasionally varied—journey between diasporic artists to reconnect with their African ancestors. the quantity starts off with a historic and aesthetic evaluation of the way dramatists, choreographers, and function artists have approached the duty of studying African fable. the person chapters demonstrate how particular artists, dramatists, and choreographers have interpreted African fable and what performative methods and traditions they've got used. concentrating on theatre practitioners from the 19th century throughout the current, the authors learn performative traditions from Canada, the USA, the Caribbean, and Latin the US.Drawing upon learn in theatre, dance, and literary texts,
Myth functionality within the African Diasporas may be an important to lecturers attracted to African functionality considered in the course of the prism of delusion making and spiritual/ritualistic stagings. along with these attracted to diasporic reports, this ebook can be worthy to students and scholars of heritage, drama, theatre, and dance.
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