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Tables of Contents for Ancient Songs Set Ablaze
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
8
Contexts
xv
PART ONE: REALISTIC PROTEST PLAYS
1
44
Chapter 1 The Early Plays
3
10
Chapter 2 Dialogue with Soyinka: No More the Wasted Breed
13
18
Chapter 3 The Oriki of a Grasshopper
31
14
PART TWO: TOWARD A POPULAR THEATRE?
45
30
Chapter 4 Who's Afraid of Solarin? and Altine's Wrath
51
12
Chapter 5 Midnight Hotel
63
12
PART THREE: A CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN THEATRE
75
78
Chapter 6 Storytelling and Brecht: Farewell to a Cannibal Rage
81
12
Chapter 7 Rewriting History: The Chattering and the Song and Morountodun
93
24
Chapter 8 Hegemony Rests with the Audience: Once Upon Four Robbers and Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels
117
36
Conclusion
153
10
Postscript The Challenges of Cultural Translation: Directing Farewell to a Cannibal Rage for an American Audience
163
32
Selected Bibliography
195