Black Theatre: Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora

Praise/word / Paul Carter Harrison --
pt. 1. African roots. Roots in African drama and theatre / J.C. de Graft --
The African heritage of African American art and performance / Babatunde Lawal --
Agones : the constitution of a practice / Tejumola Olaniyan --
What the twilight says : an overture / Derek Walcott --
Caribbean narrative : carnival characters--in life and in the mind / Gus Edwards --
Rebaptizing the world in our own terms : Black theatre and live arts in Britain / Michael McMillan and SuAndi --
pt. 2. Mythology and metaphysics. The fourth stage : through the mysteries of Ogun to the origin of Yoruba tragedy / Wole Soyinka --
The Candomblʹe and Eshu-Eleggua in Brazilian and Cuban Yoruba-based ritual / Marta Moreno Vega --
Legba and the politics of metaphysics : the trickster in Black drama / Femi Euba --
Art for life\'s sake : rituals and rights of self and other in the theatre of Aimʹe Cʹesaire / Keith L. Walker --
Sycorax mythology / May Joseph --
Conjuring as radical re/membering in the works of Shay Youngblood / Joni L. Jones --
Archetype and masking in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka\'s Dutchman / Victor Leo Walker II --
pt. 3. Dramaturgical practice. The dramaturg\'s way : meditations on the cartographer at the crossroads / Deborah Wood Holton --
Introduction to Moon marked and touched by sun / Sydnʹe Mahone --
Kennedy\'s travelers in the American and African continuum / Paul K. Bryant-Jackson --
Mojo and the sayso : a drama of Nommo that asks, \"Is your mojo working?\" / Andrea J. Nouryeh --
Ritual poetics and rites of passage in Ntozake Shange\'s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf / Jean Young --
pt. 4. Performance. Form and transformation : immanence of the soul in the performance modes of Black church and Black music / Paul Carter Harrison --
The sense of self in ritualizing new performance spaces for survival / Beverly J. Robinson --
Barbara Ann Teer : from holistic training to liberating rituals / Lundeana M. Thomas --
Bopera theory / Amiri Baraka --
From hip-hop to Hittite : part X / Keith Antar Mason --
Members and lames : language in the plays of August Wilson / William W. Cook --
Porque tu no m\'entrende? Whatcha mean you can\'t understand me? / Ntozake Shange --
Performance method / George C. Wolfe --
Afterword : testimony of a witness / Eleanor W. Traylor.