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Brian Valente-Quinn, "Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa" (Northwestern UP, 2021)

New Books in Anthropology

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The Importance of Expectations in Theater Studies

I think it's a case where, you know, there's been a lot of literature about the impact of theater of the oppressed in these sort of Global South contexts. And my argument is that there needs to hear not necessarily just be an analysis of what kind of theaters being put on, but also an analysis of expectations that are being brought by the scholar by the viewer. I go over a series of what I call kind of failed encounters with the expectations of the forum theater mode. It winds up being surprisingly productive in many different ways that are outside the expectations that one might typically bring to a performance of forum theater.

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