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Contemporary Francophone African Plays
An Anthology
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CA$65.95
ISBN: 9781684485116
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Contemporary Francophone African Plays: An Anthology presents performable English translations of eleven West African plays, dating from 1970 to 2021. Works by Dadié, Labou Tansi, Zinsou, Liking, Pliya, Alem, Kwahulé, Éfoui, Akakpo, Mukagasana, and Diouf skewer colonization, grapple with identity, and retell history and myth from African perspectives.
Contemporary Francophone African Plays
An Anthology
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CA$204.00
ISBN: 9781684485123
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Contemporary Francophone African Plays: An Anthology presents performable English translations of eleven West African plays, dating from 1970 to 2021. Works by Dadié, Labou Tansi, Zinsou, Liking, Pliya, Alem, Kwahulé, Éfoui, Akakpo, Mukagasana, and Diouf skewer colonization, grapple with identity, and retell history and myth from African perspectives.
Far Gone
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781839040733
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
When Okumu's village in Northern Uganda is attacked by a guerrilla rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kony, he and his brother find that their lives are changed forever.
Senkatana
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781776140411
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
Senkatana is a tragic play adapted from Sotho folk narrative. The play is regarded as a classic of Sesotho literature.Seen as one of the greatest essayists and dramatists writing in Southern...
Pelong ya Ka
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781776140435
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
Pelong ya Ka, a collection of essays and sketches in Sotho was first published in 1962 in the Bantu Treasury Series imprint of Witwatersrand University Press. S. Machabe Mofokeng is regarded...
Dintshontsho Tsa Bo - Juliuse Kesara
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CA$12.98
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9781776140619
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
Dint?hont?ho tsa bo-Juliuse Kesara is a translation into Setswana of Shakespeare?s Julius Caesar, by the renowned South African thinker, writer and linguist Sol T. Plaatje, who was also a gifted stage...
Ukufa kukaShaka
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CA$11.98
CA$23.95
ISBN: 9781776140718
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
Ukufa kukaShaka is a historical drama by Elliot Zondi, first published in 1960 in the Bantu (later, African) Treasury Series by the University of the Witwatersrand Press. Its plot is based...
Motswasele II
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CA$12.98
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9781776140800
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
Motswasele II, the first historical drama written by a Botswanan author, originally published in the Bantu (later, African) Treasury Series by the University of the Witwatersrand Press, in...
You Strike a Woman, You Strike a Rock / Wathint' Abafazi, Wathint' Imbokotho
A play
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CA$13.48
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781776147205
Pub Date: August 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
You Strike a Woman, You Strike a Rock / Wathint? Abafazi, Wathint? Imbokotho is a bristling example of protest theatre making during the height of apartheid. Created in ensemble fashion...
Doing Plays for a Change
Five Works
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CA$13.48
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781868142422
Pub Date: August 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
These five plays by one of South Africa?s foremost black playwrights were written between 1979 and 1986, a period in the country?s history marked by intense repression and escalating violence. Several...
Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas
Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
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CA$42.95
ISBN: 9780271083308
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Bafana Republic and Other Satires
A collection of monologues and revues
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CA$13.48
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781776145867
Pub Date: June 2020
Imprint: New York University Press
This collection of satirical sketches takes readers on a sometimes cynical, sometimes hilarious trip through many of the issues that face democratic South AfricaThe seed of this...
The Living
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CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781772012316
Pub Date: April 2019
Imprint: Talonbooks
The Living is a documentary play inspired by the actual stories of women and girls who survived trauma in post-conflict zones. It examines the lives of victims and perpetrators, post-genocide, who live side-by-side in government-issued housing, as well as the role of NGO-funded campaigns.
The Fishermen
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781848427976
Pub Date: August 2018
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
In a small Nigerian town, Ben and Obembe, along with their two older brothers, slip away to fish at a forbidden river. Unnoticed and carefree, they keep coming back until one day a madman's prophecy changes the course of their lives forever.
The Bram Fischer Waltz
A play
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CA$13.48
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781868149742
Pub Date: November 2016
Imprint: New York University Press
Although widely known as the Afrikaner communist who saved Nelson Mandela from the gallows, very little is known about Bram Fischer the man. Fischer was a respected Senior Advocate at the Johannesburg...
Das (franko-)algerische Kino
Eine filmgeschichtliche Studie aus transnationaler Perspektive
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CA$129.40
ISBN: 9783631661819
Pub Date: August 2016
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
Diese Studie bietet einen Einblick in die Geschichte des algerischen Kinos seit der Unabhängigkeit. Sie erfasst Schwerpunkte des Filmschaffens, insbesondere mit Blick auf die Verhandlungen von Geschichte und Identität.
Contemporary Francophone African Plays
An Anthology
CA$65.95
ISBN: 9781684485116
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Contemporary Francophone African Plays
An Anthology
CA$204.00
ISBN: 9781684485123
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Far Gone
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781839040733
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
When Okumu's village in Northern Uganda is attacked by a guerrilla rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) led by Joseph Kony, he and his brother find that their lives are changed forever.
Senkatana
CA$13.48 CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781776140411
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
Pelong ya Ka
CA$13.48 CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781776140435
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
Dintshontsho Tsa Bo - Juliuse Kesara
CA$12.98 CA$25.95
ISBN: 9781776140619
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
Ukufa kukaShaka
CA$11.98 CA$23.95
ISBN: 9781776140718
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
Motswasele II
CA$12.98 CA$25.95
ISBN: 9781776140800
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
You Strike a Woman, You Strike a Rock / Wathint' Abafazi, Wathint' Imbokotho
A play
CA$13.48 CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781776147205
Pub Date: August 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
Doing Plays for a Change
Five Works
CA$13.48 CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781868142422
Pub Date: August 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas
Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
CA$42.95
ISBN: 9780271083308
Pub Date: April 2021
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Bafana Republic and Other Satires
A collection of monologues and revues
CA$13.48 CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781776145867
Pub Date: June 2020
Imprint: New York University Press
The Living
CA$18.95
ISBN: 9781772012316
Pub Date: April 2019
Imprint: Talonbooks
The Fishermen
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781848427976
Pub Date: August 2018
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
In a small Nigerian town, Ben and Obembe, along with their two older brothers, slip away to fish at a forbidden river. Unnoticed and carefree, they keep coming back until one day a madman's prophecy changes the course of their lives forever.
The Bram Fischer Waltz
A play
CA$13.48 CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781868149742
Pub Date: November 2016
Imprint: New York University Press
Das (franko-)algerische Kino
Eine filmgeschichtliche Studie aus transnationaler Perspektive
CA$129.40
ISBN: 9783631661819
Pub Date: August 2016
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
Diese Studie bietet einen Einblick in die Geschichte des algerischen Kinos seit der Unabhängigkeit. Sie erfasst Schwerpunkte des Filmschaffens, insbesondere mit Blick auf die Verhandlungen von Geschichte und Identität.