Judith G. Miller, Sylvie Chalaye, Amelia Parenteau, Ninon Vessier, Amelia Parenteau, Subha Xavier

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Contemporary Francophone African Plays

An Anthology

Herausgeber: Miller, Judith G / Übersetzer: Miller, Judith G; Xavier, Subha; Vessier, Ninon; Parenteau, Amelia

Beschreibung

Contemporary Francophone African Plays: An Anthology presents performable English translations of eleven West African plays, dating from 1970 to 2021. Works by Dadié, Labou Tansi, Zinsou, Liking, Pliya, Alem, Kwahulé, Éfoui, Akakpo, Mukagasana, and Diouf skewer colonization, grapple with identity, and retell history and myth from African perspectives.

Autor

Judith G. Miller is an emerita professor of French at New York University. She has published over thirty translations of plays, essays, and novels, most recently The Théâtre du Soleil, the First Fifty-Five Years by Béatrice Picon-Vallin and And the Whole World Quakes: Chronicle of a Slaughter Foretold, a play by Haitian author Guy Régis Jr., in New Plays from the Caribbean, ed. Stéphanie Bérard.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781684485123
• ISBN-10: 1684485126
• Artikelnr.: 68914371