Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-214) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Malian Tuareg (Kel Tamajaq) theatrical performance: creativity in crisis, vulnerability, and resilience -- The actors, verbal arts, and performance -- General background on the Tuareg, the Kel Adagh, and the town and region of Kidal -- Situating acting and creativity in culture, place, and memory -- The poetics and politics of aesthetic style and genre and the ibaraden actors -- Acting and cultural translation: actors and audiences as interpreters and mediators in reformulating "traditional" and "modern" -- The plays: popular plot themes and their wider social contexts -- Rural-urban and nomadic-sedentarized encounters -- Disputed gender, relations between the sexes, and embodied performance -- Youths and elders: resistance and healing in intergenerational ambivalence -- Religious reflections and social dissonance -- Conclusions: nostalgic yearning and cultural critique.
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