Contemporary women. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Volume editors, Jane Plastow & Yvette Hutchison ; guest editor, Christine Matzke ; reviews editor, Martin Banham.
• Editors: Plastow, Jane; Hutchison, Yvette; Matzke, Christine; Banham, Martin
• Contents: Editors' foreword: Women on the front line / by Jane Plastow, Yvette Hutchison & Christine Matzke -- Introduction: Citizen and artist: African women making theatre / Sandra L. Richards -- The work of Dalia Basiouny: an artist's account / Dalia Basiouny -- Performatives as activism: addressing gender-based violence & rape culture in South Africa & beyond / Sara Matchett & Nicola Cloete -- Exploring poetic voice in the Uganda women's intergenerational theatre project / Susan Kiguli & Jane Plastow -- 'After images': impressions of the 'after' by South African performer-choreographer Mamela Nyamza / Alude Mahali -- Jalila Baccar of Tunisia: a portrait of an artist / Marvin Carlson -- In conversation: interrogating & shifting societal perceptions of women in Botswana through theatre / Lebogang Disele -- Binti Leo: women in the arts in Tanzania / Vicensia Shule -- Odile Gakire Katese: making art & reinventing culture with women / interview with Ariane Zaytzeff -- Contemporary Ethiopian actresses / Jane Plastow & Mahlet Solomon -- Introducing The sentence by Sefi Atta / Christine Matzke -- Playscript: The sentence / Sefi Atta -- Book reviews.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, an imprint of Boydell and Brewer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (144 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 792/.082/0960905; Women in the theater -- Africa; Women in the performing arts -- Africa; Women dramatists -- Africa; Theater -- Africa -- History -- 21st century; Performing arts -- Africa -- History -- 21st century; African drama -- 21st century -- History and criticism; African drama (English) -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM -- African; African drama; African drama (English); Performing arts; Theater; Women dramatists; Women in the performing arts; Women in the theater; Africa; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History; Literary criticism; Literary criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782046370; 1782046372
• Related ISBNs: 9781847011312; 1847011314
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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