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A History of East African Theatre, Volume 1 : Horn of Africa

By Jane Plastow

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030472719, 9783030472726
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-47272-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4013829 bytes)
Series
Transnational Theatre Histories
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
XVI, 305\315
Time added
2021-01-06 05:41:07
Cultural and Media Studies; Global/International T

Description

This book is the first ever transnational theatre study of an African region. Covering nine nations in two volumes, the project covers a hundred years of theatre making across Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda. This volume focuses on the theatre of the Horn of Africa. The book shows how the theatres of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, little known in the outside world, have been among the continent's most politically important, commercially successful, and widely popular; making work almost exclusively in local languages and utilizing hybrid forms that have privileged local cultural modes of production. A History of African Theatre is relevant to all who have interests in African cultures and their relationship to the history and politics of the East African region.

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