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Myth performance in the African diasporas : ritual, theatre, and dance
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Myth performance in the African diasporas : ritual, theatre, and dance

Benita Brown

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Re-visionary history as myth performance: a postcolonial re-reading of Maud Cuney-Hare's Antar of Araby, Willis Richardson's The Black horseman, and Aimé Césaire's And the dogs were silent
The Òrìsà paradigm: an overview of African-derived mythology, folklore, and kinesthetic dance performative
Performative body language in Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Lynn Nottage's Ruined: African female bodies through African American eyes
The codification of soul in African-derived dance culture
Of rebels, tricksters, and supernatural beings: toward a semiotics of myth performance in African Caribbean and Afro-Brazilian dramas
Of princesses and queens: the mythical journeys home in Djanet Sears' Afrika, solo and Rebecca Fisseha's Wise.woman.

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Myth performance in the African diasporas : ritual, theatre, and dance by Benita Brown. ISBN 9780810892798. Published by The Scarecrow Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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