The Cultural Factor in the Semiotics of Contemporary African Drama
Cheela Chilala
Broschiertes Buch

The Cultural Factor in the Semiotics of Contemporary African Drama

An Analysis of Four African Plays

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This book is based on a study of the influence of culture on the semiotics of contemporary African drama - semiotics being the study of signs, which in this book includes both verbal and non-verbal signs. In this regard, even silence can be as much a sign as noise, and stillness as much as movement; inaction as much as action. Cultural factors play a critical role in the production and interpretation of sign-vehicles in a dramatic text because some signs are culture-specific. The book proceeds from the premise that African dramatists are influenced by their culture when writing plays and that ...