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African Women Playwrights

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Africa
African studies
AIDS
Ama Ata Aidoo
Andiah Kisis
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character
collection
commentary
cultural difference
cultural studies
Dania Gurira
education
English
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female circumcision
gender
identity
Juliana Okoh
literature
Lueen Conning
Malika Ndlovu
Nathalie Etoke
Nikkole Salter
play
playwright
plot
prostitution
publish
race
Sindiwe Magona
skin color
survival
theatre
tradition
Tsitsi Dangarembga
unpublished
Violet R. Barungi
women's rights
women's studies

Product details

  • ISBN 9780252075735
  • Weight: 594g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Nov 2008
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

This anthology consists of nine plays by a diverse group of women from throughout the African continent. The plays focus on a wide range of issues, such as cultural differences, AIDS, female circumcision, women's rights to higher education, racial and skin color identity, prostitution as a form of survival for young girls, and nonconformist women resisting old traditions. In addition to the plays themselves, this collection includes commentaries by the playwrights on their own plays, and editor Kathy A. Perkins provides additional commentary and a bibliography of published and unpublished plays by African women.

The playwrights featured are Ama Ata Aidoo, Violet R. Barungi, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nathalie Etoke, Dania Gurira, Andiah Kisia, Sindiwe Magona, Malika Ndlovu (Lueen Conning), Juliana Okoh, and Nikkole Salter.
About
Kathy A. Perkins is a professor of theatre at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her publications include Black South African Women: An Anthology of Plays, Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women, and several other anthologies of plays.