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Hardcover Trickster Theatre: The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa Book

ISBN: 0253016452

ISBN13: 9780253016454

Trickster Theatre: The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa

(Part of the African Expressive Cultures Series)

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Trickster Theatre traces the changing social significance of national theatre in Ghana from its rise as an idealistic state project from the time of independence to its reinvention in recent electronic, market-oriented genres. Jesse Weaver Shipley presents portraits of many key figures in Ghanaian theatre and examines how Akan trickster tales were adapted as the basis of a modern national theatre. This performance style tied Accra's evolving...

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