Senegalese stagecraft : decolonizing theater-making in Francophone Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Valente-Quinn, Brian (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2021]
Series:	Performance works.
Subjects:	Theater > Senegal > History. Theater and society > Senegal. Senegalese drama (French) > 20th century > History and criticism. Senegalese drama (French) > 21st century > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Colonial Pedagogy and Creative Enactment: The Theater of the École Normale William Ponty
2. A Political Theater for a New Elite: The French Cultural Centers of the 1950s
3. The 1966 First World Festival of Negro Arts: Hommes de Culture and the Epic Pan-African Stage
4. Staging Sufi Stories: The Religious Stage Space of Bamba Mos Xam
5. From Stage to Screen: The Rise of Senegalese Television
6. Stagecraft and Popular Theater
Conclusion. Theater as a Senegalese Invention.