Decolonizing the Stage Theatrical Syncretism and Post-Colonial Drama |
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| Author:
| Balme, Christopher B. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-818444-7 |
| Publication Date: | May 1999 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $335.00 |
Book Description:
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Decolonizing the Stage explores the way dramatists and directors from a wide number of post-colonial societies have attempted to fuse the performance idioms of their indigenous traditions with the Western theatrical form. It provides a theoretically sophisticated, cross-cultural comparative approach to a wide number of writers, regions, and theatre movements. These include Nobel Prize-winning authors such as Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, and Rabindranath Tagore.
Decolonizing the Stage explores the way dramatists and directors from a wide number of post-colonial societies have attempted to fuse the performance idioms of their indigenous traditions with the Western theatrical form. It provides a theoretically sophisticated, cross-cultural comparative approach to a wide number of writers, regions, and theatre movements. These include Nobel Prize-winning authors such as Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, and Rabindranath Tagore.