Decolonizing the Stage Theatrical Syncretism and Post-Colonial Drama

Name: Decolonizing the Stage Theatrical Syncretism and Post-Colonial Drama
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ISBN: 9780198184447

ISBN-10: 0198184441

ISBN-13: 9780198184447

Edition: 1999

Authors: Christopher B. Balme

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Decolonizing the Stage is a major study devoted to post-colonial drama and theatre. It examines the way dramatists and directors from various countries and societies have attempted to fuse the performance idioms of their indigenous traditions with the Western dramatic form. These experiments are termed 'syncretic theatre'. The study provides a theoretically sophisticated, cross-cultural comparative approach to a wide number of writers, regions, and theatre movements, ranging from Maori, Aboriginal, and native American theatre to Township theatre in South Africa. Writers studied include Nobel Prize-winning authors such as Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, and Rabindranath Tagore, along with…

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List price: $335.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/20/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Christopher Balme is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Munich.



List of Illustrations


Introduction



Indigenous theories of syncretic theatre



Ritual frames and liminal dramaturgy



Language and the post-colonial stage



Orality as performance



Visualizing the body



Dance and body language



Spaces and spectators


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index