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Contemporary Francophone African Plays: An Anthology presents performable English translations of eleven West African plays, dating from 1970 to 2021. Works by Dadié, Labou Tansi, Zinsou, Liking, Pliya, Alem, Kwahulé, Éfoui, Akakpo, Mukagasana, and Diouf skewer colonization, grapple with identity, and retell history and myth from African perspectives.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction
Sylvie Chalaye and Judith G. Miller
1.
Béatrice of the Congo by Bernard Dadié
Unless otherwise stated, plays are translated and introduced by Judith G. Miller
2.
I, The Undersigned, Cardiac Case by Sony Labou Tansi
Translated and introduced by Subha Xavier and Ninon Vessier
3.
Itsembabwoko: “Yolande’s Monologue” by Yolande Mukagasana from Groupow’s
Rwanda 94 4.
We’re Just Playing by Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou
5.
Singuè Mura: Given That a Woman… by Werewere Liking
6.
The Sister of Zarathustra by José Pliya
7.
The Landing by Kangni Alem
8.
The Conference of the Dogs by Kossi Efoui
9.
The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood by Gustave Akakpo
10.
SAMO: A Tribute to Basquiat by Koffi Kwahulé
11.
Tracks, Trails, and Traces… by Penda Diouf
Translated by Amelia Parenteau and introduced by Judith G. Miller
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
About the author
Judith G. Miller is an emerita professor of French at New York University. She has published over thirty translations of plays, essays, and novels, most recently
The Théâtre du Soleil, the First Fifty-Five Years by Béatrice Picon-Vallin and
And the Whole World Quakes: Chronicle of a Slaughter Foretold, a play by Haitian author Guy Régis Jr., in
New Plays from the Caribbean, ed. Stéphanie Bérard.
