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African Theatre 15: China, India & the Eastern World (Hardcover)
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African Theatre 15: China, India & the Eastern World (Hardcover)
Series: African Theatre
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Extends the study of China's "soft power" into theatre studies and
looks more widely at syncretic traditions evolving in other
long-term historic exchanges between Asia and Africa. China is the
main focus of this volume, and articles consider the way it is
using "soft power" in its extensive engagement with South Africa,
and, through its support for theatre festivals, with Lusophone
countries in Africa. China's involvement with the construction of
theatres, opera houses and cultural facilities as part of its
foreign aid programmes in such countries as Algeria, Cameroon,
Mauritius, Ghana and Senegal, provides the background to the
playscript from this volume, Blickakte (Acts of Viewing) by Daniel
Schauf, Philipp Scholtysik & Jonas Alsleben, that explores
Chinese impact in Somalia. Issues also emerge around what China is
"importing" culturally fromAfrica. In 2012, Soyinka's The Lion
& the Jewel was produced there, and a season of Fugard's work
was enjoyed in Beijing during 2014. During 2016 Brett Bailey's
Macbeth Opera will be performed in Macao. In recent years courses
in African theatre have been started in Beijing by Biodun Jeyifo,
and also taught by Femi Osofisan whose well-known Esu and the
Vagabond Minstrels and Once Upon Four Robbers have been
translatedinto Mandarin, along with Soyinka's The Lion & the
Jewel. The volume also includes contributions on exchanges between
other Asian countries and Africa such as articles on the production
of African plays in Bangladesh and onthe persistence of African
performance traditions among African migrants in India. Attention
is paid to the syncretic theatre traditions that have evolved
wherever African and Asian populations have been in close and
extended contact, as in Mauritius and Durban. Unusual exchanges and
globalized theatre surfaces in the course of the volume. For
example, while the Guangdong Provincial Puppet Art Theatre Group
performed at the 41st Grahamstown Festival (2015), Chinese
puppeteers are being trained to manipulate the War Horse for a
Beijing production. Volume Editors: JAMES GIBBS & FEMI OSOFISAN
FEMI OSOFISAN Thalia Laureate of the International Association of
TheatreCritics 2016 Series Editors: Martin Banham, Emeritus
Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies, University of Leeds;
James Gibbs, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of the
West of England; Femi Osofisan, Professor ofDrama, University of
Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of
Leeds; Yvette Hutchison, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre
& Performance Studies, University of Warwick.
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