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1 online resource (vi, 166 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Summary |
This book examines the concept and practice of myth performance in African Diaspora dramas and dances. These six essays chart a new path that enriches and enhances the understanding of African diaspora myth performance in literary and diaspora studies. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
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 -- The Òrìsà paradigm: an overview of African-derived mythology, folklore, and kinesthetic dance performative -- Performative body language in Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Lynn Nottage's Ruined: African female bodies through African American eyes -- The codification of soul in African-derived dance culture -- Of rebels, tricksters, and supernatural beings: toward a semiotics of myth performance in African Caribbean and Afro-Brazilian dramas -- Of princesses and queens: the mythical journeys home in Djanet Sears' Afrika, solo and Rebecca Fisseha's Wise.woman. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Drama -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
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Drama -- Black authors. |
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Mythology, African, in literature.
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Mythology, African, in literature. |
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English literature -- African influences.
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English literature -- African influences. |
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Dance, Black -- History and criticism.
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Dance, Black. |
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Africa -- Influence.
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Africa. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Added Author |
Kuwabong, Dannabang, 1955- author.
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Olsen, Christopher, 1952- author.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Brown, Benita J. Myth performance in the African diasporas. Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2014 9780810892798 (DLC) 2013034434 (OCoLC)856054361 |
ISBN |
9780810892804 (electronic book) |
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0810892804 (electronic book) |
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9781306282352 (MyiLibrary) |
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1306282357 (MyiLibrary) |
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9780810892798 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0810892790 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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