Contemporary Francophone African Plays

An Anthology

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2024
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
9781684485123 (ISBN)

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Bringing together in English translation eleven Francophone African plays dating from 1970 to 2021, this essential collection includes satirical portraits of colonizers and their collaborators (Bernard DadiÉ’s BÉatrice du Congo; Sony Labou Tansi’s I, Undersigned, Cardiac Case; SÉnouvo Agbota Zinsou’s We’re Just Playing) alongside contemporary works questioning diasporic identity and cultural connections (Koffi KwahulÉ’s SAMO: A Tribute to Basquiat and Penda Diouf’s Tracks, Trails, and Traces…). The anthology memorializes the Rwandan genocide (Yolande Mukagasana’s testimony from Rwanda 94), questions the status of women in entrenched patriarchy (Werewere Liking’s SinguÈ Mura: Given That a Woman…), and follows the life of Elizabeth Nietzsche, who perverted her brother’s thought to colonize Paraguay (JosÉ Pliya’s The Sister of Zarathustra). Gustave Akakpo’s The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood and Kossi Efoui’s The Conference of the Dogs offer parables about what makes life livable, while Kangni Alem’s The Landing shows the dangers of believing in a better life, through migration, outside of Africa.

Judith G. Miller is an emerita professor of French at New York University. She has published over thirty translations of plays, essays, and novels, most recently The ThÉÂtre du Soleil, the First Fifty-Five Years by BÉatrice Picon-Vallin and And the Whole World Quakes: Chronicle of a Slaughter Foretold, a play by Haitian author Guy RÉgis Jr., in New Plays from the Caribbean, ed. StÉphanie BÉrard.

Preface
Introduction
Sylvie Chalaye and Judith G. Miller
1. Béatrice of the Congo by Bernard Dadié
Unless otherwise stated, plays are translated and introduced by Judith G. Miller
2. I, The Undersigned, Cardiac Case by Sony Labou Tansi
Translated and introduced by Subha Xavier and Ninon Vessier
3. Itsembabwoko: “Yolande’s Monologue” by Yolande Mukagasana from Groupow’s Rwanda 94
4. We’re Just Playing by Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou
5. Singuè Mura: Given That a Woman… by Werewere Liking
6. The Sister of Zarathustra by José Pliya
7. The Landing by Kangni Alem
8. The Conference of the Dogs by Kossi Efoui
9. The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood by Gustave Akakpo
10. SAMO: A Tribute to Basquiat by Koffi Kwahulé
11. Tracks, Trails, and Traces… by Penda Diouf
Translated by Amelia Parenteau and introduced by Judith G. Miller
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2024
Reihe/Serie	Scènes Francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater
Co-Autor	Sylvie Chalaye
Übersetzer	Judith G. Miller, Amelia Parenteau, Ninon Vessier
Zusatzinfo	0 illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	485 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-13	9781684485123 / 9781684485123
Zustand	Neuware