New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres - Paperback

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.

• | Author: John Conteh-Morgan
• | Publisher: Indiana University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 03, 2010
• | Number of Pages: 230 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0253222265
• | ISBN-13: 9780253222268