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Contemporary plays by African women : Niqabi ninja, Not that woman, I want to fly, Silent voices, Unsettled, Mbuzeni, Bonganyi / edited and introduced by Yvette Hutchison and Amy Jephta.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019Description: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781350034518 (pb)
  • 9781350034525 (hpod)
Related works:
  • Contains (work): Judith, Adong. Silent voices
  • Contains (work): Mempuh, Sophia. Bonganyi
  • Contains (work): Moyo, Thembelihle. I want to fly
  • Contains (work): Niala, J.C. Unsettled
  • Contains (work): Putuma, Koleka. Mbuzeni
  • Contains (work): Sawaari, Sara. Niqabi ninja
  • Contains (work): Tume, Tosin. Not that woman
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.920809287 23
LOC classification:
  • PR9347 .C656 2019
Contents:
Introduction & general bibliography / Yvette Hutchison & Amy Jephta -- Plays: with biographies, production histories and critical introductions -- Niqabi ninja / Sara Sawaari (Egypt) -- Not that woman / Tosin Tume (Nigeria) -- I want to fly / Thembelilhe Moyo (Zimbabwe) -- Silent voices / Adong Judith (Uganda) -- Unsettled / JC Niala (Kenya) -- Mbuzeni / Koleka Putuma (South Africa) -- Bonganyi / Sophia Mempuh (Cameroon).
Summary: This volume draws together six contemporary plays by female African writers, offering a rare insight into the work being produced by these practitioners. These plays, which are selected from writers across the continent, together give a rich portrait of identity, politics, culture and society in contemporary Africa. The editors of the volume have also provided biographies and the writers' own artistic statements; production histories; and a critical contextualisation of the theatre from which each woman is writing. This provides a rich context from which these plays can be prescribed for study, both at secondary school and undergraduate level--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction & general bibliography / Yvette Hutchison & Amy Jephta -- Plays: with biographies, production histories and critical introductions -- Niqabi ninja / Sara Sawaari (Egypt) -- Not that woman / Tosin Tume (Nigeria) -- I want to fly / Thembelilhe Moyo (Zimbabwe) -- Silent voices / Adong Judith (Uganda) -- Unsettled / JC Niala (Kenya) -- Mbuzeni / Koleka Putuma (South Africa) -- Bonganyi / Sophia Mempuh (Cameroon).

This volume draws together six contemporary plays by female African writers, offering a rare insight into the work being produced by these practitioners. These plays, which are selected from writers across the continent, together give a rich portrait of identity, politics, culture and society in contemporary Africa. The editors of the volume have also provided biographies and the writers' own artistic statements; production histories; and a critical contextualisation of the theatre from which each woman is writing. This provides a rich context from which these plays can be prescribed for study, both at secondary school and undergraduate level--Provided by publisher.

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