Representing Africa in the motherland and the diaspora : essays on theatre, dance, music and cinema /: essays on theatre, dance, music and cinema. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
• Editors: Jr, Wetmore, Kevin J, 1969-
• Contents: Representing Africa: an introduction to the challenges and this volume / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. -- Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun: the African-diasporas identity search and a racism/desegregation dialectics / Joseph Agofure Idogho -- Performing peace and democracy in Nigeria: Bakare's outing in Langbodo / 'Tosin Kooshima Tume -- Ubiaja Ikhio dance drama in contemporary Nigerian and African-American drama / Juliana Okoh -- Children's folk music and cultural identity: the motherland and the diaspora experience / Eunice Ukamaka Ibekwe -- Africa to America: black choreography in search of global interaction in contemporary African dance genre / Victor Thompson -- In search of Yorùbá Bàtá: system of cultural production in diaspora / Oluwadamilare Adeyeri -- From Ikpirikpe-ogu to Nkwa-Ike: adapting Igbo traditional dance for a contemporary audience / Cristian Nwaru -- Not lost but rooted: exploring Nigerian dances and praxis in Brazil and Cuba / Casmir E. Oneyemuchara -- Presenting history in the representation of historical events: a critical reading of Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen's Invasion 1897 / Barclays Foubiri Ayakoroma -- An appraisal of the positive portrayal of women in Tunde Kelani's movies: a study of Thunderbolt / Omolola Tosan Akinwole -- Nigerian video-films as a medium for repositioning the Nigerian woman / Mary Okocha -- Nudity and debasement of womanhood in African films: the examples of selected Nollywood and Ghallywood films / Charles A. Ogazi and Ibitayo O. Odetade -- Identity, creative reality, and representations of popular culture in select Nollywood movies / Sola Fosudo -- "Bring it all, you f--king animals": representing the African (American) as savage from King Kong to Ferguson / Baron Kelly.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 240 pages), illustrations, music
• Subjects: 809/.93326; African literature; African diaspora; African diaspora; African literature; Literature; Mass media; Motion pictures; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Africa -- In literature; Africa -- In motion pictures; Africa -- In mass media; Africa; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781527526068; 1527526062
• Related ISBNs: 1527506428; 9781527506428
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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