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Wafula, Richard M.

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Performing hybridity: A dialogic and semiotic study of late twentieth-century drama from Africa and the African diaspora.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Performing hybridity: A dialogic and semiotic study of late twentieth-century drama from Africa and the African diaspora./
Author:	Wafula, Richard M.
Description:	211 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4043.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-11A.
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3111950
ISBN:	9780496594801

Performing hybridity: A dialogic and semiotic study of late twentieth-century drama from Africa and the African diaspora.
Wafula, Richard M.

Performing hybridity: A dialogic and semiotic study of late twentieth-century drama from Africa and the African diaspora. - 211 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4043.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2003.

Studies that have been conducted to establish the connections between African and African diaspora dramatic performances have often been conceptualized based on the apparent racial identity of the artists who create them. This study moves away from these conceptualizations and demonstrates that dramatic texts and performances from Africa and the African diaspora are hybrid and syncretic, which is to say that their organizing principles are not traceable to any one specific culture. Instead, the dramatic texts and performances from Africa and the African diaspora are "multicultural" and bear testimony to the heterogeneity of the people who create and consume them. Through this study I show that intellectual habits that align the production of dramatic works from Africa and the African diaspora with essentialist racial categories are theoretically erroneous and dangerous in real life. The works of Lorraine Hansberry, Amie Cesaire, Derek Walcott, Ama Ata Aidoo, Tess Onwueme, Amiri Baraka, Ebrahim Hussein, Wole Soyinka, Suzan Lori-Parks, Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, Douglas Turner Ward and Earl Lovelace exhibit multiple sources of origin. My critique of the frameworks that tend to seek a straight line of connection of ideas from Africa to the African diaspora and that tend to search for what is distinctly African in these dramas and performances leads to the conclusion that Afrocentric approaches cannot adequately account for African and diasporic plays produced in the late twentieth century. My analysis is informed instead by Bakhtinian dialogism in conjunction with adjacent frameworks such as the sociology of theatre, semiotics and postcolonial theory. It shows moreover that dialogism, which Bakhtin attributes to the novel alone, is appropriate for an analysis of the convergences and divergences of drama from Africa and the African diaspora. By using dialogism among other frameworks, I emphasize the fact that in dramatic performance, discourse is as important as plot and action. This study consequently interrogates and modifies Bakhtin's extreme concessions in favor of the novel as the quintessence of dialogism.

ISBN: 9780496594801Subjects--Topical Terms:

570001
Comparative literature.

Performing hybridity: A dialogic and semiotic study of late twentieth-century drama from Africa and the African diaspora.
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