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35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
Goldsmiths' College : B - Theatre and performance
Culture and Identity in African and Caribbean Theatre
The research that led to writing of this book was conducted over an extended period (1990-2009) including research trips to West Africa and the Caribbean. The book discusses published and unpublished material (play texts, production notes, performance reviews) on African and Caribbean theatre in both English and French, pidgin, creole and dialect. Using a combination of postcolonial theory, critical cultural theory, performance theory and radical history the book argues that African and Caribbean dramatists use the theatre to reclaim and reposition African and African Caribbean cultural identities while interrogating/subverting the continuing dominant colonial and imperial literary, economic and political discourses.
The research that led to writing of this book was conducted over an extended period (1990-2009) including research trips to West Africa and the Caribbean. The book discusses published and unpublished material (play texts, production notes, performance reviews) on African and Caribbean theatre in both English and French, pidgin, creole and dialect. Using a combination of postcolonial theory, critical cultural theory, performance theory and radical history the book argues that African and Caribbean dramatists use the theatre to reclaim and reposition African and African Caribbean cultural identities while interrogating/subverting the continuing dominant colonial and imperial literary, economic and political discourses.
