MiataDrivers - The Politics of Adaptation: Contemporary African Drama and Greek Tragedy (Cross/Cultures)
Astrid Van Weyenberg
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The Politics of Adaptation: Astrid Van Weyenberg epub The Politics of Adaptation: Astrid Van Weyenberg pdf download The Politics of Adaptation: Astrid Van Weyenberg pdf file The Politics of Adaptation: Astrid Van Weyenberg audiobook The Politics of Adaptation: Astrid Van Weyenberg book review The Politics of Adaptation: Astrid Van Weyenberg summary | #5835124 in Books | 2013-06-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.75 x5.98l,1.24 | File type: PDF | 268 pages|||[a] thought-provoking study, which raises important questions, offers complications to previous analyses of the same and similar material, and which seeks to move beyond Eurocentric and postcolonial narratives and arguments to address the plays as works of con
This book explores contemporary African adaptations of classical Greek tragedies. Six South African and Nigerian dramatic texts - by Yael Farber, Mark Fleishman, Athol Fugard, Femi Osofisan, and Wole Soyinka - are analysed through the thematic lens of resistance, revolution, reconciliation, and mourning. The opening chapters focus on plays that mobilize Greek tragedy to inspire political change, discussing how Sophocles' heroine Antigone is reconfigured as a freedom figh...
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