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Kenneth Harrow
Dept of English and Film Studies
http://www.english.msu.edu/people/faculty/kenneth-harrow/
From: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
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Date: Thursday 11 January 2018 at 09:00
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - FW: African Theatre 16 is out. Please encourage orders etc
From: JAMES GIBBS <jamesgibbs@btinternet.com>
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Date: Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 1:51 PM
To: JAMES GIBBS <jamesgibbs@btinternet.com>
Subject: African Theatre 16 is out. Please encourage orders etc
Asking people to ask is not much to ask.
African Theatre 16: Six Plays from East and West Africa is now out and it is essential reading.
The volume represents a quite outstanding collaboration between Jane Plastow and Martin Banham, and holds the reader's attention from beginning to end.
The remarkable editorial job of selecting texts and matching those texts with commentators has resulted in a volume that is creative, authoritative and utterly fascinating.
The contents of the volume is reproduced below - and can be found on-line at the relevant page of the Boydell & Brewer site (link below). A glance whets the appetite for the text.
Briefly African Theatre 16 tells inspiring and terrible stories, and reflects just what an important area of study African Theatre has become.
Because of the quality of the volume, it is essential that it gets into the hands of theatre people. This means library orders. If you have connections with well-endowed institutions, please make sure that Library Orders go in. [For ISBN and other publishing details, including e-book information, see the Boydell & Brewer page. ]
For those with links to institutional libraries in Africa, there is the long-running and very effective LUCAS Book Distribution Scheme. As a result of outside funding (secured by the editors) and of AT's sympathetic publisher complimentary, paper-back copies of the publication are available for institutional libraries in Africa. [However, appropriate requests must be made: Please ask librarians to ask.]
For a description of the Scheme (that involves other volumes in the African Theatre series, African Literature Today etc) visit: http://lucas.leeds.ac.uk/the-lucas-book-distribution-scheme/
Librarians in African institutions should contact the African Studies Administrator, Dr Christian Hogsbjerg, at: african-studies@leeds.ac.uk
Preface - Jane Plastow and Martin Banham
THREE PLAYS FROM EAST AFRICA
The Translation & Transcription of Mother Uganda & Her Children [Patience Nitumwesiga & team]
The Context & Making of Rose Mbowa's Mother Uganda & Her Children - Patrick Mangeni and Jane Plastow
Majangwa: A Promise of Rains (1974) by Robert Serumaga
Notions of Indigeneity: Uganda's Robert Serumaga - Don Rubin
The Guest (2016) by Manyazewal Endeshaw
An Absurdist in Addis Ababa: Manyazewal Endeshaw's Engida - Jane Plastow and Zerihun Birehanu
THREE PLAYS FROM WEST AFRICA
If: A Tragedy of the Ruled (1983) by Ola Rotimi
Ola Rotimi: Creating Theatrical Spaces - Martin Banham
Morountodun (1983) by Femi Osofisan
Morountodun: A Retrospective Commentary - Biodun Jeyifo
The Legend of Wagadu as Seen by Sia Yatabere (1988) by Moussa Diagana
Moussa Diagana & The Legend of Wagadu as Seen by Sia Yatabere: Advocating Anarchy in Mauritania? - Jane Plastow
Book Reviews
Publisher's web-page for AT 16.
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