New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres
Author | : John Conteh-Morgan |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2010-08-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0253004586 |
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John Conteh-Morgan explores the multiple ways in which African and Caribbean theatres have combined aesthetic, ceremonial, experimental, and avant-garde practices in order to achieve sharp critiques of the nationalist and postnationalist state and to elucidate the concerns of the francophone world. More recent changes have introduced a transnational dimension, replacing concerns with national and ethnic solidarity in favor of irony and self-reflexivity. New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres places these theatres at the heart of contemporary debates on global cultural and political practices and offers a more finely tuned understanding of performance in diverse diasporic networks.