Speaking Our Selves
Speaking Our Selves brings together eight remarkable plays by women writers from the under-represented African countries of Tanzania, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Mali, Burundi, Benin, and Sudan, plus a play by award-winning Ugandan playwright and volume coeditor Asiimwe Kawe. Four of the plays are transla...
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| description | Speaking Our Selves brings together eight remarkable plays by women writers from the under-represented African countries of Tanzania, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Mali, Burundi, Benin, and Sudan, plus a play by award-winning Ugandan playwright and volume coeditor Asiimwe Kawe. Four of the plays are translated into English from Kiswahili, French, or Kirundi and French, while most of the plays preserve African indigenous languages, including Runyankore, Lusoga, Mina, Fon, Bambara, Luganda, Kiswahili, and Kirundi. Although the plays are united in presenting women as central figures who own their voices, they also represent a rich diversity of story-telling. Each unique dramaturgy is rooted in African forms of story-telling that occasionally merge with recognizable Western forms to create hybrid, dramatic forms. These hybrid methods emphasize the striking ways in which African women writers continue to experiment with form, moving beyond Western-influenced dramaturgy if and when it jeopardizes their authentic ways of artistic expression and creation through language, movement, and music, centered in African Cosmology.
The plays within Speaking Our Selves confront a range of ideas and issues, including women embracing the potential of agency in often contested subject positions; confronting their historical object positions in worlds of devastating patriarchal authority; resisting toxic masculinity and persistent, oppressive binaries of gender roles; finding power in communities of women; increasing their acumen in financial, business, and economic spheres; facing tensions between traditional religious tenets and efforts toward secularization; living with perpetual acts of violence toward their bodies; and the rising mental health issues among girls and women across the continent. Readers and audiences are challenged by these plays not to be passive witnesses by observing from safe vantage points, but rather to be active participants in the stories being told. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1523422025-07-30T09:00:07Z Speaking Our Selves Kawe, Asiimwe Deborah Vorlicky, Robert H. African Women Playwrights, 21st Century Anthology of African Women Playwrights, African forms of story-telling, Plays by African women, Plays by African women in English, Playwrights from Sub-Saharan Africa, Playwrights in East Africa, Post-Independence African Theatre, Black Women Theatre makers, Esi Sutherland-Addy, Asiimwe Deborah Kawe, Celma Costa, Jeanne Diama, Claudia Munyengabe, Alaa Taha, Meaza Worku, Natalie Hounvo Yekpe, Penina Mlama Muhando, Robert Vorlicky, Judith Miller, Joshua Williams, Rivardo Niyonizigiye, Nathalie Hounvo Yekpe, Judith G. Miller thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DD Plays, playscripts thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DD Plays, playscripts thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies Speaking Our Selves brings together eight remarkable plays by women writers from the under-represented African countries of Tanzania, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Mali, Burundi, Benin, and Sudan, plus a play by award-winning Ugandan playwright and volume coeditor Asiimwe Kawe. Four of the plays are translated into English from Kiswahili, French, or Kirundi and French, while most of the plays preserve African indigenous languages, including Runyankore, Lusoga, Mina, Fon, Bambara, Luganda, Kiswahili, and Kirundi. Although the plays are united in presenting women as central figures who own their voices, they also represent a rich diversity of story-telling. Each unique dramaturgy is rooted in African forms of story-telling that occasionally merge with recognizable Western forms to create hybrid, dramatic forms. These hybrid methods emphasize the striking ways in which African women writers continue to experiment with form, moving beyond Western-influenced dramaturgy if and when it jeopardizes their authentic ways of artistic expression and creation through language, movement, and music, centered in African Cosmology. The plays within Speaking Our Selves confront a range of ideas and issues, including women embracing the potential of agency in often contested subject positions; confronting their historical object positions in worlds of devastating patriarchal authority; resisting toxic masculinity and persistent, oppressive binaries of gender roles; finding power in communities of women; increasing their acumen in financial, business, and economic spheres; facing tensions between traditional religious tenets and efforts toward secularization; living with perpetual acts of violence toward their bodies; and the rising mental health issues among girls and women across the continent. Readers and audiences are challenged by these plays not to be passive witnesses by observing from safe vantage points, but rather to be active participants in the stories being told. 2025-02-18T04:02:32Z 2025-02-18T04:02:32Z 2025-02-17T11:24:40Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98676 9780472077212 9780472057214 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/152342 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98676/1/9780472904839.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98676/1/9780472904839.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98676/1/9780472904839.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.12827650 10.3998/mpub.12827650 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472077212 9780472057214 297 open access |
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| topic_facet | African Women Playwrights, 21st Century Anthology of African Women Playwrights, African forms of story-telling, Plays by African women, Plays by African women in English, Playwrights from Sub-Saharan Africa, Playwrights in East Africa, Post-Independence African Theatre, Black Women Theatre makers, Esi Sutherland-Addy, Asiimwe Deborah Kawe, Celma Costa, Jeanne Diama, Claudia Munyengabe, Alaa Taha, Meaza Worku, Natalie Hounvo Yekpe, Penina Mlama Muhando, Robert Vorlicky, Judith Miller, Joshua Williams, Rivardo Niyonizigiye, Nathalie Hounvo Yekpe, Judith G. Miller thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DD Plays, playscripts thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DD Plays, playscripts thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies |
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