Search Results - "syncretism"

Syncretic arenas : essays on postcolonial African drama and theatre for Esiaba Irobi /

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Decolonizing the stage : theatrical syncretism and post-colonial drama / by Balme, Christopher B.

Modernist Heresies : British Literary History, 1883-1924 / by Franke, Damon, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Literary paganism and the heresy of syncretism;…”
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Negotiating Afropolitanism essays on borders and spaces in contemporary African literature and folklore /

Table of Contents: “…Border crossings, precarity, syncretism -- pt. 2. Dissidence, absence, transgression -- pt. 3. …”
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Music in Kenyan Christianity : Logooli religious song / by Kidula, Jean Ngoya

Table of Contents: “…Assembly : Logooli historical, cultural, and musical background -- Encounter : Avalogooli and Euro-American religion, culture, and music -- Consolidation : Christian religious genres in Logooli-land -- Accommodation : Logooli adoption and use of 'book' music -- Syncretism : Logooli Christian songs of the spirit -- Invocation : Logooli Christian songs in contemporary education and media.…”

An introduction to the literature of Equatorial Guinea between colonialism and dictatorship / by Lewis, Marvin A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The essay in Equatorial Guinea : Hispanidad, cultural syncretism, and the search for Guineidad -- Poetry: in search of an authentic voice -- The short story : a genre in search of authors -- Drama : oral and written for the stage -- The early Equatorial Guinean novel : writing under colonialism -- The contemporary novel : Hispanidad and Guineidad interrogated--again.…”
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Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction / by Guo, Li (Writer on Chinese literature)

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Writing Gender -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Style and Excerpts -- Introduction Toward a Spatialized Understanding of Women's Literary Tanci -- Chapter One Vernacular Literacy, Cross-Dressing, and Feminine Authority in Zhu Suxian's Yulianhuan (Linked Rings of Jade) -- Chapter Two Among Women: Feminine Homoeroticism in Li Guiyu's Liuhuameng (Dream of the Pomegranate Flowers) -- Chapter Three Gender, Syncretism, and Female Exemplarity: Jin Fangquan's Qizhenzhuan (A Tale of Exceptional Chastity)…”
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The Black Aesthetic Unbound : Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature / by Langley, April C. E.

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