Trickster Theatre

The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Performing Arts, Theatre, History & Criticism, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture
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Author: Jesse Weaver Shipley ISBN: 9780253016591
Publisher: Indiana University Press Publication: June 22, 2015
Imprint: Indiana University Press Language: English
Author: Jesse Weaver Shipley
ISBN: 9780253016591
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication: June 22, 2015
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Language: English

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 urban identity to rural origins and to Pan-African liberation politics. Contradictions emerge, however, when the ideal Ghanaian citizen is a mythic hustler who stands at the crossroads between personal desires and collective obligations. Shipley examines the interplay between on-stage action and off-stage events to show how trickster theatre shapes an evolving urban world.

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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 urban identity to rural origins and to Pan-African liberation politics. Contradictions emerge, however, when the ideal Ghanaian citizen is a mythic hustler who stands at the crossroads between personal desires and collective obligations. Shipley examines the interplay between on-stage action and off-stage events to show how trickster theatre shapes an evolving urban world.

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