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Author:

Brown, Benita J., author.

Title:

Myth performance in the African diasporas : ritual, theatre, and dance / Benita Brown, Dannabang Kuwabong, and Christopher Olsen.

Publisher:

The Scarecrow PressInc.,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

vi, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Drama--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Mythology, African, in literature.
English literature--African influences.
Dance, Black--History and criticism.
Africa--Influence.

Other Authors:

Kuwabong, Dannabang, 1955-
Olsen, Christopher, 1952-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Of princesses and queens: the mythical journeys home in Djanet Sears' Afrika, solo and Rebecca Fisseha's Wise.woman / Christopher Olsen. Re-visionary history as myth performance: a postcolonial re-reading of Maud Cuney-Hare's Antar of Araby, Willis Richardson's The Black horseman, and Aimé Césaire's And the dogs were silent / Dannabang Kuwabong -- The Òrìsà paradigm: an overview of African-derived mythology, folklore, and kinesthetic dance performative / Benita Brown -- Performative body language in Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Lynn Nottage's Ruined: African female bodies through African American eyes / Christopher Olsen -- The codification of soul in African-derived dance culture / Benita Brown -- Of rebels, tricksters, and supernatural beings: toward a semiotics of myth performance in African Caribbean and Afro-Brazilian dramas / Dannabang Kuwabong -- Of princesses and queens: the mythical journeys home in Djanet Sears' Afrika, solo and Rebecca Fisseha's Wise.woman / Christopher Olsen.

ISBN:

0810892790 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780810892798 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)856054361

LCCN:

2013034434

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)