Introduction : instrumentalizing performance and the Francophone postcolonial performative
Cultural trauma and ritual re-membering : Werewere Liking's Les mains veulent dire
The dramatist as epic performer : Eugène Dervain's Saran, ou la reine scélérate
The power and the pleasures of dramatized narrative : Bernard Zadi Zaourou's La guerre des femmes
Theatre as writing and voice : Patrick Chamoiseau's Manman dlo contre la fée carabosse
Tradition instrumentalized : Elie Stephenson's O mayouri
Militariat grotesqueries and tragic lament : Tchicaya u Tam'si's Le destin glorieux du maréchal nnikon nniku, prince qu'on sort and le bal de ndinga
From the grotesque to the fantastic : Sony Labou Tansi's Qui a mangé Madame d'Avoine Bergotha?
Exile and the failure of the nation; or, diasporic subjectivity from below : Simone Schwarz-Bart's Ton beau capitaine
Conclusion : Francophone theatres in the age of globalization.
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New Francophone African and Caribbean theatres by John Conteh-Morgan. ISBN 9780253222268. Published by Indiana University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
