Reading Material For Afrika Solo

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Read some of these articles for Afrika, Solo. Issues:

Spatiality and temporality in performance spaces; identity politics for African Caribbean

Canadian female search for identity; performing cultural and racial marginality as

empowering poetic in diasporic (dis)locations; cultural mestizaje and appropriation; Africa

in African Caribbean imaginaries; critique of history and cultural studies; the framing

identity through the power of performance in enclosed public spaces; what is Afrika to me?

Some Bibliography.

Balogun, L. (2018). Mythological recuperation and performance as agency for genealogical

return in Djanet Sears’s Afrika Solo. Genealogy. 2, 14. doi: 10.3390/genealogy2020014

Donell, A. 'The African presence in Caribbean Literature" revisited: Recovering the politics of

imagined co-belonging 1930-2005. Research in African Literatures. 46, 4. 35-55.

Kress, G. (2012). Multimodal discourse analysis. In Gee, J. P. & Handford, M. (Eds.), The

Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis. (587-603). New York, NY: Routledge

Kuwabong, Dannabang. (2014). Introduction. Ritual Journeys, Dancing Histories, Enacting

Bodies and Spirits” to Myth Performance in African Diaspora Drama: myth, history, dance.

New York: Scarecrow Press, pp. (1-12)

Roach, J. (1996). Cities of the Dead: circum-Atlantic performance. Arac, J. (Ed.) Columbia

University Press Books. New York.

Olsen, Christopher. (2014). “Of Princesses and Queens: The Mythical Journeys Home in Djanet

Sears’ Afrika Solo and Rebecca Fisheha’s Wise Woman” Myth Performance in African Diaspora

Drama: myth, history, dance. New York: Scarecrow Press, pp.137-150.

Glissant, Edouard (1998). Poetics of Relation.


Henry Louis Gates Jr., Wonders of the African World (Video Series in the Screening Room).
Okagbue, Osita. Culture and Identity in African and Caribbean Theatre, chapter 2.
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Ousmane Diakhaté and Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh (2017). “The Roots of African Theatre Ritual and
Orality in the Pre-Colonial Period.” http://www.critical-stages.org/15/the-roots-of-
african-theatre-ritual-and-orality-in-the-pre-colonial-period/
Nkululeko Sibanda (2019). “Conceptualizing Alternative Theater and Alternative Performance
Space in Postindependence Zimbabwe.”
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244019846699
Petropoulos, J. (2006). “Performing African Canadian Identity: Diasporic Reinvention in "Afrika
Solo". Feminist Review, (84), 104-123. Retrieved from www.jstor.org/stable/30232742
Vanessa Lee. “Postcolonial Space in French Caribbean Women’s Theatre.” (2016).
https://www.academia.edu/37860125/Postcolonial_Space_in_French_Caribbean_WomenTheatr
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