Fresh form to suit myriad ideas in Beyene Haile'sHeart-to-Heart Talk
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2173050 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tedros Abraham (0000-0002-1939-229X) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-83 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of African Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-6815 • E-ISSN: 1469-9346 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13696815.2014.976184 |
| OpenAlex | W2120851725 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article probes the production of Beyene Haile's play Weg'i Libi ('Heart-to-Heart Talk') to contextualize some seemingly provincial contemporary concerns that in fact are relevant throughout Africa. Written in one of the Eritrean languages, Tigrinya, Weg'i Libi (2008) comes with a fresh form, which includes various elements from western classical to other various modern and African traditional performance forms examining a myriad of national and continental contemporary concerns such as migration, power consolidation, aesthetics, and oral tradition, which hinder it from immediate production. Though written by a prominent author, unlike government-sponsored productions with professional actors, this play was staged by amateur university students after it was rejected for professional production
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |