Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272) and index.
Contents:
Epilogue: unfreedom as critical theory. History and mediations in making theatre -- Making culture : race, history, and a theory of performance in the Gold Coast colony -- The national theatre movement : urban art infrastructures and a contested national culture in independence-era Accra -- Revolutionary storytelling : Pan-African theatre and remaking lost futures in 1980s Ghana -- A man of the people : Mohammed Ben Abdallah as artist-politician -- Stagings in millennial Ghana -- Total African theatre : language, reflexivity, and ambiguity in The witch of Mopti -- "The best tradition goes on" : audience, consumption, and the structural transformation of Concert Party popular theatre -- Fake pastors and real comedians : doubling and parody in miraculous, charismatic performance -- Copying independence : backstage at the fiftieth-anniversary re-enactment of Nkrumah's independence speech -- Epilogue: unfreedom as critical theory.
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