The Plays of Aristide Tarnagda
eBook - PDF

The Plays of Aristide Tarnagda

Contemporary Francophone Theatre from Burkina Faso

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Plays of Aristide Tarnagda

Contemporary Francophone Theatre from Burkina Faso

About this book

The first English-language anthology of Aristide Tarnagda's theatre, this book brings together six of the acclaimed West African playwright's recent French-language plays. Winner of ADELF's 2017 Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire (Best African Literary Work), Tarnagda blends poetic and colloquial registers to create powerful characters that resonate with the universal themes of longing, the need to be heard, and the realities of everyday life. This debut anthology now invites the anglophone world to encounter Tarnagda's theatre alongside voices of West African scholars and theatre artists whose short forwards and afterword contextualise each of the translated plays and his impactful theatre career. The plays include: And If I Killed Them All, Ma'am? (2013)
Tears from the August Sky (2013)
Sank, or the Patience of the Dead (2016)
Ways of Loving (2017)
Red Earth (2017)
Musika (2019) Along with an introduction by Heather Jeanne Denyer and completed by images of these productions, The Plays of Aristide Tarnagda is a fantastic introduction to not only this acclaimed and beloved playwright, but also to the themes and joys of francophone African theatre.

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Yes, you can access The Plays of Aristide Tarnagda by Aristide Tarnagda, Heather Jeanne Denyer,Anna G. R. Miller in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & African Drama. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Methuen Drama
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781350453159
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Figures
  7. Introduction
  8. And If I Killed Them All, Ma’am?
  9. Preface to And If I Killed Them All, Ma’am?
  10. And If I Killed Them All, Ma’am?
  11. Tears from the August Sky
  12. Preface to Tears from the August Sky
  13. Tears from the August Sky
  14. Red Earth
  15. Preface to Red Earth
  16. Red Earth
  17. Ways of Loving
  18. Preface to Ways of Loving
  19. Ways of Loving
  20. Sank, or the Patience of the Dead
  21. Preface to Sank, or the Patience of the Dead
  22. Sank, or the Patience of the Dead
  23. Musika
  24. Preface to Musika
  25. Musika
  26. Afterword
  27. Contributors