Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics

✍ Scribed by Helen Gilbert

• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 355
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Post-Colonial Drama is the first full-length study to address the ways in which performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects of imperialism. It brings to bear the latest theoretical approaches from post-colonial and performance studies to a range of plays from Australia, Africa, Canada, New Zealand, the Caribbean and other former colonial regions. Some of the major topics discussed in Post-Colonial Drama include: * the interactions of post-colonial and performance theories * the post-colonial re-stagings of language and history * the specific enactments of ritual and carnival * the theatrical citations of the post-colonial body Post-Colonial Drama combines a rich intersection of theoretical approaches with close attention to a wide range of performance texts.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
INTRODUCTION: RE-ACTING (TO) EMPIRE......Page 12
RE-CITING THE CLASSICS: CANONICAL COUNTER-DISCOURSE......Page 26
TRADITIONAL ENACTMENTS: RITUAL AND CARNIVAL......Page 64
POST-COLONIAL HISTORIES......Page 117
THE LANGUAGES OF RESISTANCE......Page 175
BODY POLITICS......Page 214
A PROVISIONAL CONCLUSION......Page 305
Bibliography......Page 309
Index......Page 346