Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in African Women's DramaAfrica World Press, 2007 - 322 pages |
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Page 52
... fact , Mlama's experimentation with artistic form , especially the dramatic elements of rituals such as dances and chanting , reveals a profound understanding and reconstruction of the forms themselves . Her use of these forms is tied ...
... fact , Mlama's experimentation with artistic form , especially the dramatic elements of rituals such as dances and chanting , reveals a profound understanding and reconstruction of the forms themselves . Her use of these forms is tied ...
Page 150
... fact , the private aspect of these dilemmas is the least of the concerns of the play . Its popular- ity lies precisely in its deceptive appeal to contemporary nationalist anxieties about cultural reclamations in order to challenge an ...
... fact , the private aspect of these dilemmas is the least of the concerns of the play . Its popular- ity lies precisely in its deceptive appeal to contemporary nationalist anxieties about cultural reclamations in order to challenge an ...
Page 268
... fact the dramatic recreation , both in content and structure . They deal invariably with the erup- tion of disorder in the life of a rural community - death , illness , crime - and their object is not to entertain , to inflame or to ...
... fact the dramatic recreation , both in content and structure . They deal invariably with the erup- tion of disorder in the life of a rural community - death , illness , crime - and their object is not to entertain , to inflame or to ...
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