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Achebe's Work, Postcoloniality, And Human Rights, Eric Sipyinyu Njeng

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Achebe's Work, Postcoloniality, and Human Rights" Eric Sipyinyu Njeng argues that Chinua Achebe exposes failings in the fabric of African society and engages with violations of human rights. Achebe is careful not to hurt the pride of Africans who in the Zeitgeist of the nationalist ferment of the 1950s were wary of European powers. Achebe does not "write back" to the empire: he writes the empire in and he lays bare the weaknesses in African culture grounded in the father-son-grandson trajectory he narrates. Achebe presents what may be termed a cultural dialectics: the thesis (flawed African customs …

Bibliography For Work In Digital Humanities And (Inter)Mediality Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

The Father's Power In Breitbach's Report On Bruno And Achebe's A Man Of The People, Amechi N. Akwanya

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "The Father's Power in Breitbach's Report on Bruno and Achebe's A Man of the People" Amechi N. Akwanya analyses Joseph Breitbach's Report on Bruno and Chinua Achebe's No Longer at Ease in order to lay bare the underlying processes of these texts. Undoubtedly the patterns of struggle in the two texts are political, but reading them in exclusively political terms has the consequence that the works are of no further interest once the putative political agenda is identified and described. Akwanya's analysis discloses shared features in the two texts published within two years of each other. …

Sound Semiotics Of Osundare's Poetry, Christopher Chukwudi Anyokwu

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Sound Semiotics of Osundare's Poetry" Christopher Anyokwu postulates that in our increasingly chirographically and typographically oriented culture and society, we often forget how tenacious and over-arching the oral continues to be. Semiotics, the science of signs, highlights among others how speech acts and speech sounds are deployed in everyday human interactions to convey meaning and communicate humanity's need for understanding and fulfillment. This meaning-signaling potential of the tonality of language is even more pronounced in most African languages which are, unlike English, syllable timed and tonal in nature. This tonal nature of African languages is appropriated by …

The Dilemma Of Western Education In Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story, Naylor's The Women Of Brewster Place, And Morrison's Beloved, Solomon Omatsola Azumurana

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "The Dilemma of Western Education in Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story, Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, and Morrison's Beloved" Solomon Omatsola Azumurana examines the problematics of Western education with regard to Black Africans and African Americans through the creative lens of three prose fictions written by African and African American women. While Ama Ata Aidoo is a West African writer from Ghana, Gloria Naylor and Toni Morrison are African American writers. Azumurana argues that Western education poses issues whether for African Americans of Black Africans and whether educated and literate or not, there …

Ecocriticism In An Age Of Terror, Simon C. Estok

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Ecocriticism in an Age of Terror" Simon C. Estok argues that we cannot ignore the context of terror in and through which ecocriticism works and that the relationships between the imagining of terror on the one hand and the conceptualizing of hostile environments on the other is in very serious need of critical analysis. Changes in how we think about nature are also long overdue, as are changes in how we think about doing ecocriticism. Working toward these changes now in our scholarship will take us leaps and bounds closer to the activist intervention about which ecocriticism …

Towards A Framework Of A Semiotics Of Dance, Nikoleta Popa Blanariu

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Towards a Framework of a Semiotics of Dance" Nicoleta Popa Blanariu constructs a framework of based on de Saussure's, Peirce's, and Barthes's thought. She applies Ferdinand de Saussure's concept of semiosis defined as a cultural system of conventions. In dance this occurs when choreographic signs are encoded, for example in magic, ritual, or religious expressions of movement. Further, Charles Sanders Peirce's concept of the role of "intelligent consciousness" is crucial for the engendering of signification and thus to dance. In dance, the choreographer "interprets" the world and by means of selection and interpretation, the choreographic sign …

Ambanasom's Son Of The Native Soil And The Western Concept Of The Tragic Hero, Denis Fonge Tembong

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Ambanasom's Son of the Native Soil and the Western Concept of the Tragic Hero" Denis Fonge Tembong discusses the view that although African and Western literatures are fundamentally different as they exhibit or represent distinct cultural values, they nevertheless share some common notions. The concept of a tragic hero is one of those convergent loci where the two literatures meet. With this in mind, Tembong examines in Aristotle's and Shakespeare's concepts of the tragic hero and demonstrates how the ideas exploited in Macbeth are similarly used in Shadrach A. Ambanasom's Son of the Native Soil against the …

Racism And Identity In Onwueme's Riot In Heaven, Onyeka F. Iwuchukwu

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Racism and Identity in Onwueme's Riot in Heaven" Onyeka Iwuchukwu explores Tess Osonye Onwueme's acclaimed play in the context of the Black diaspora in the U.S. Iwuchukwu posits that because of Onwueme's exploration of the theater of the absurd in the play, audience's attention is directed to the illogical presentation of dialogue and action. However, the technique with textual properties suggesting unmotivated and meaningless references in fact carries profound meaning. Further, the said "absurd" presentation and narration results in a strong ideological and political message akin to the practice of littérature engagée. Iwuchukwu's analysis of …

Pc News Webpage - Hollywood 101: Students Visit L.A. For A Lesson In Show Business, Providence College

Promotional Materials

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

PC News webpage - Hollywood 101: Students Visit L.A. for a Lesson in Show Business

February 27, 2013

The Apple Of His Ire: For Monologist Mike Daisey, The Death Of Steve Jobs Was Another Defining Moment In A Remarkable Career, Neil Genzlinger

Colby Magazine

Monologist Mike Daisey ’96 had been targeting Apple and Steve Jobs for a year. Then Jobs died and Daisey’s show was changed once again.

You Can't Take It With You, Parkland College

Parkland Theatre

By George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Directed by Joi Hoffsommer

February 21, 22, 23, 28 at 7:30pm
March 1, 2 at 7:30pm
March 3 at 3pm
2013

The Winter's Tale (2013), William Shakespeare

Season 2012-2013

No abstract provided.

Wheeler, Beatrice Irene (Isenberg), 1915-2004 (Sc 867), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 867. Two skits by Beatrice Irene (Isenberg) Wheeler, written in 1988 and 1989, based on her childhood experiences in Northtown, a very small Hart County, Kentucky community. Written for a presentation at College Street Church of Christ in Lebanon, Tennessee. One play describes a country school and the other documents a worship service.

Shakespeare's As You Like It At Mcpherson Theatre, Katherine Filippo

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

On The Concept Of The Face, Regarding The Son Of God, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2012-2013 Exceptions Rule: No Compromise

Don’t miss the American premiere of one of the most controversial theater pieces to emerge from Europe in the past few years. A starkly wonderous invention of stagecraft, On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God questions the meaning of life through a realistic prism of faith and love. As an adult son copes with caring for his aging father, this ode to compassion implores the audience to experience the sacred nature of dignity gained through suffering. In a work both tender and provocative, Romeo Castellucci pushes the limits of stage expression, drawing parallels between the spritual …

Roman Comedy On Stage, Nunzia Martino

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

The Illusion Strike Poster, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

The Illusion strike

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Wayfaring Stranger, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2012-2013 Exceptions Rule: No Compromise

Lionheart expertly joins classics from the Medieval and Renaissance vocal repertoire with new work by the most innovative composers of contemporary vocal music. In Wayfaring Stranger, the group joins forces with four members of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) for the East Coast premiere of composer Ingram Marshall’s Psalmbook. Accompanying Marshall’s meditation on early American psalmody is an eclectic mix of music spanning more than 800 years ranging from sacred chant to Appalachian folk melodies. Works by Phil Kline and Laura Nyro are also highlighted in this ode to restless wanderlust.

Lucia Mad (2013), Don Nigro

Season 2012-2013

No abstract provided.

A View From The Bridge (February 7-9, 2013), Arthur Miller

Student Theatre Programs

Program for A View from the Bridge (February 7-9, 2013).

A Message From The Director Of Red Devils, Nunzia Martino, Katherine Filippo

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Curtains Open Auditions Poster, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Angell Blackfriars Theatre

Curtains open auditions

Day 1: Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 7pm

Day 2: Saturday, February 9, 2013, 1:30pm

The Zoo Story And The American Dream Poster, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Posters 2012-2013 Season

By Edward Albee

Directed by William Steele

Dimensions: 8" x 13"

Postcard included, dimensions 4" x 6"

The Illusion Playbill, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Angell Blackfriars Theatre, Smith Center for the Arts

The Illusion

by Tony Kushner, freely adapted from Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion Comique

February 1-3 & 8-10, 2013

Directed by Patrick Mark Saunders '13 & John Garrity

Scenic Design: Sara Ossana

Lighting Design: Jen Rock

Stage Combat: Normand Beauregard

Costume Design: Mike Floyd

Sound Design: Paul Perry

Vocal Coach: Renina Flores

Cast: Pridamant - Jeff Desisto; The Amanuensis - Ben Williams; Alcandra - Grace Curley; Calisto/Clindor/Theogenes - Sean Carney; Melibea/Isabelle/Hippolyta - Aubrey Dion; Elica/Lyse/Clarina - Marisa Urgo; Pleribo/Adraste/Prince Florilame - George Killian; Matamore - Kevin …

The Illusion Poster, Providence College, Coyote Hill

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Angell Blackfriars Theatre

The Illusion

by Tony Kushner, freely adapted from Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion Comique

February 1-3, 8-10

The Zoo Story And The American Dream Program, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2012-2013 Season

By Edward Albee

Directed by William Steele

This production was a Participating entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KC/ACTF).

Godspell

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 2013 performance of Godspell by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak.

Gospell is a musical telling the parables and life of Jesus found in the gospel of Matthew.

God Of Carnage, February 7-9, 2013, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza and directed by Siobhan Bremer.

Synopsis: Winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play, God of Carnage relates an evening in the lives of two couples, residents of a tony Brooklyn neighborhood, who meet to discuss a playground incident. Alan and Annette’s son hit Michael and Veronica’s son in the face with a stick, resulting in two broken teeth. The four of them agree to discuss the incident civilly, but, as the night wears on and drinks are imbibed, the polite veneer breaks down. The couples initially …

Stay In Time, Feb. 2013, San Jose State University, School Of Music And Dance

Upbeat (School of Music and Dance)

No abstract provided.