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Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s Theatre (1968-1978)

Activism and Innovation

By: George Bwanika Seremba

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Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s Theatre (1968-1978)

Activism and Innovation

By: George Bwanika Seremba

This book provides a meticulous examination of the work of playwright Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s theatre (1968-1978). It considers the question of individualism—or its extreme form, solipsism—on the one hand, and activism or a social conscience on the other. Theatrical innovation is another key concern. It deconstructs the ruling histories, historiography and performance analysis of the time as irremediably tainted by a ferocious post-independence nation-statism. This is a study of a theatre of commitment, dissidence, resistance, resilience, struggle, signification and survival; a theatre born under the unrelenting glare of severe, scorching censorship, and incarceration. For the very first time, Serumaga’s work is examined in its entirety and afforded the room, complexity and scope it requires and deserves. For the very first time, too, scholars of the Golden Age of Uganda’s theatre will have to make no more than a single stop in their search for what were hitherto scattered tidbits and sources of Uganda’s theatre history.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527528936

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Odysseys Home

Mapping African-Canadian Literature

By: George Elliott Clarke

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Mapping African-Canadian Literature

By: George Elliott Clarke

Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field. Based on extensive excavations of archives and texts, this challenging passage through twelve essays presents a history of the literature and examines its debt to, and synthesis with, oral cultures. George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues for its relevance to both African Diasporic Black and Canadian Studies, and critiques several of its key creators and texts. Scholarly and sophisticated, the survey cites and interprets the works of several major African-Canadian writers, including André Alexis, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Claire Harris, and M. Nourbese Philip. In so doing, Clarke demonstrates that African-Canadian writers and critics explore the tensions that exist between notions of universalism and black nationalism, liberalism and conservatism. These tensions are revealed in the literature in what Clarke argues to be – paradoxically – uniquely Canadian and proudly apart from a mainstream national identity. Clarke has unearthed vital but previously unconsidered authors, and charted the relationship between African-Canadian literature and that of Africa, African America, and the Caribbean. In addition to the essays, Clarke has assembled a seminal and expansive bibliography of texts – literature and criticism – from both English and French Canada. This important resource will inevitably challenge and change future academic consideration of African-Canadian literature and its place in the international literary map of the African Diaspora.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487516789

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Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s Theatre (1968-1978)

Activism and Innovation

By: George Bwanika Seremba

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Activism and Innovation

By: George Bwanika Seremba

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1527528936

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Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s Theatre (1968-1978)

Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s Theatre (1968-1978)

Odysseys Home

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