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Myth performance in the African diasporas : ritual, theatre, and dance
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- Creator
- Benita Brown, Dannabang Kuwabong, and Christopher Olsen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2014
- Physical Details
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- vi, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780810892798, 0810892790, 9780810892804, 0810892804
- OCLC
- ocn856054361
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: ritual journeys, dancing histories, enacting bodies, and spirits / Dannabang Kuwabong -- 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 / Benita Brown -- Performative body language in Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Lynn Nottage's Ruined: African female bodies through African American eyes / Christopher Olsen -- 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 / Christopher Olsen