WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CONTEMPORARY THEATRE by Don Rubin (Editor), Ousmane Diakhate (Editor), Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh (Editor) ( 9780415059312 )

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Title:

WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CONTEMPORARY THEATRE
VOLUME 3: AFRICA

By:

Don Rubin (Editor), Ousmane Diakhate (Editor), Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0415059313

ISBN 13:

9780415059312

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

12 June, 1997

Pages:

412

Description:

This third volume of the "WECT" series provides national overviews of the recent theatrical development of some 40 non-Arabic African countries.

Synopsis:

Volume Three in this series carries on from the highly acclaimed volumes on Europe and on the Americas. Focusing on non-Arabic Africa, and with contributions from leading experts from the countries featured, the third volume of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre series examines theatrical developments in Africa since 1945. Entries on thirty-two African countries are featured in this volume, preceded by specialist introductory essays on Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, History and Culture, Cosmology, Music, Dance, Theatre for Young Audiences and Puppetry. There are also special introductory general essays on African theatre written by Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka and the outstanding Congolese playwright, Sony Labou Tansi, before his untimely death in 1995. More up-to-date and more wide-ranging than any other publication, this is undoubtedly a major ground-breaking survey of contemporary African theatre.

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Imprint:

Routledge

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Returnable

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