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Myth Performance in the African Diasporas
Ritual, Theatre, and Dance
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2013
Summary
Diaspora studies continue to expand in range and scope and remain fertile terrain for investigating multiple techniques of myth creation in dance performance, history as performance, dramatic narrative, and staged rituals in the field. Similarly, research in postcoloniality, gender/sexuality, intercultural, and literary studies, among others, all engage and feature core components of performance and myth in articulating and understanding their fields. This sharing of similar components also demonstrates the interrelatedness of these fields.
In Myth Performance in the African Diasporas: Ritual, Theatre, and Dance, the authors contend that performance traditions across artistic disciplines reveal a shared—if sometimes varied—journey among diasporic artists to reconnect with their African ancestors. The volume begins with a historical and aesthetic overview of how dramatists, choreographers, and performance artists have approached the task of interpreting African myth. The individual chapters reveal how specific artists, dramatists, and choreographers have interpreted African myth and what performative approaches and traditions they have used. Focusing on theatre practitioners from the nineteenth century through the present, the authors examine performative traditions from Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
Drawing upon research in theatre, dance, and literary texts, Myth Performance in the African Diasporas will be crucial to academics interested in African performance viewed through the prism of myth making and spiritual/ritualistic stagings. Besides those interested in diasporic studies, this book will also be useful to scholars and students of history, drama, theatre, and dance.
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Edition
1/2013
Copyright Year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-9279-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-9280-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
166
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
1 Re-visionary History as Myth Performance No access Pages 13 - 52
2 The Òrìṣà Paradigm No access Pages 53 - 70
3 Performative Body Language in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus and Lynn Nottage’s Ruined No access Pages 71 - 88
4 The Codification of Soul in African-Derived Dance Culture No access Pages 89 - 102
5 Of Rebels, Tricksters, and Supernatural Beings No access Pages 103 - 136
6 Of Princesses and Queens No access Pages 137 - 150
