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The generation of plays: Yorùbá popular life in theater

Karin Barber

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Frontmatter
Acknowledgments (page ix)
A Note on Orthography (page xi)
1 Introduction: Yorùbá Popular Theater from the Ground Up (page 1)
2 The History of a Founder, a Genre, and a Public (page 18)
3 The Actors (page 62)
4 Getting a Show on the Road (page 93)
5 The Generation of Plays (page 131)
6 Filling Out a Play (page 172)
7 Audiences (page 204)
8 Television, Film, and Video (page 240)
9 The World of the Work: Place, Gender, and Politics (page 265)
10 Literacy, "Enlightenment," and "Tradition" (page 306)
11 Work, Destiny, and Self-Making (page 348)
12 Language and the Moral Public (page 399)
13 Conclusion: The Lessons of Example (page 422)
Appendix 1: Synopses (page 435)
Appendix 2: Yorùbá Text of a Scene from Taking Care of Kúnlé (page 443)
Notes (page 447)
Bibliography (page 463)
Index (page 475)

Reviews
Journal Abbreviation	Label	URL
RAL	35.1 (Spring. 2004): 202-203	https://muse.jhu.edu/article/53608tj
TJ	54.3 (Oct. 2002): 511-513	https://muse.jhu.edu/article/35008
AFSR	45.3 (Dec. 2002): 108-109	http://www.jstor.org/stable/1515121
IJAHS	34.2 (2002): 412-413	http://www.jstor.org/stable/3097490
AE	29.2 (May. 2002): 429-430	http://www.jstor.org/stable/3095179
AFRI	76.4 (2006): 598-600	http://www.jstor.org/stable/40027301

Citable Link

Published: c2000

Publisher: Indiana University Press

ISBN(s)

9780253216175 (paper)
9780253338075 (hardcover)

Subject

African