A History of East African Theatre, Volume 2 : Central East Africa Paperback / softback
by Jane Plastow
Part of the Transnational Theatre Histories series
Paperback / softback
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This second volume of A History of East African Theatre focuses on central East Africa; on Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
The first chapter is concerned with francophone theatres, comparatively studying work coming out of Burundi and Rwanda alongside a focus on French language theatre in Djibouti.
The chapter is particularly concerned to explore how French and Belgian cultural policies impacted theatre during the colonial period and how the French ideas of Francafrique and promotion of elite, French language art have continued to resonate in the post-colonial present.
Chapters Two and Three look comparatively at the rich theatre histories of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and are divided between a study of British East African colonial impact and an analysis of the post-colonial period illustrating how divergent political thought and societal make-up led to exponential differentiation in national theatres.
The final chapter, on Theatre for Development and related social action theatre, covers the whole East African region, offering the first ever historicised analysis of this mode of theatre making which, since the 1980s, has come to dominate funding and opportunity in performance arts.
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- Pages:319 pages, 9 Illustrations, color; 7 Illustrations, black and white; XVIII, 319 p. 16 illus., 9 illu
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- Publication Date:04/11/2022
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:319 pages, 9 Illustrations, color; 7 Illustrations, black and white; XVIII, 319 p. 16 illus., 9 illu
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:04/11/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030877330
