This collection in part examines the legacy of the consummate
Nigerian stage artist and scholar, Esiaba Irobi (1960-2010). Poems,
tributes, and studies celebrate Irobi's significance as actor,
playwright, director, poet, and theatre theorist. Irobi's life,
temper, times, and career are inextricably linked to the history,
development, concerns, and uses of drama and theatre in Africa. The
contributions highlight the evolution of autochthonous theatrical
practices: the interaction between Western and indigenous African
performance traditions; colonial/postcolonial government policies
and the mutations of drama and theatre (and critical commentary);
the tensions inherent in postcolonial conceptions of history,
identity, nationhood, and articulations of alternative aesthetics,
pedagogies, and epistemologies for postcolonial African theatre;
staging African plays in the West; and the constituencies of the
contemporary African playwright and director. The strength of these
studies derives primarily from nuanced examinations of the concerns
and careers of particular African playwrights; the history,
offerings, and fortunes of particular theatrical arenas, and close
explorations of specific performances and texts. The foregrounding
of correspondences in the dramaturgies and intellectual ferment of
the continent critically accentuates equally privileged regional,
historical, and other crucial specificities. Situated in time and
place while underscoring the political and intellectual
intersections of a shared history of colonialism, the contributions
to Syncretic Arenas, individually and collectively, reveal the
transformations and growing strengths of postcolonialism as an
analytical strategy.
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