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Spiders of the Market: Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism
David Afriyie Donkor
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Description for Spiders of the Market: Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism
Paperback. Series: African Expressive Cultures. Num Pages: 254 pages, 11 b&w illus., 1 table, 11 video. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; AN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 250 x 20. Weight in Grams: 376.
The Ghanaian trickster-spider, Ananse, is a deceptive figure full of comic delight who blurs the lines of class, politics, and morality. David Afriyie Donkor identifies social performance as a way to understand trickster behavior within the shifting process of political legitimization in Ghana, revealing stories that exploit the social ideologies of economic neoliberalism and political democratization. At the level of policy, neither ideology was completely successful, but Donkor shows how the Ghanaian government was crafty in selling the ideas to the people, adapting trickster-rooted performance techniques to reinterpret citizenship and the common good. Trickster performers rebelled against this takeover of ... Read more
The Ghanaian trickster-spider, Ananse, is a deceptive figure full of comic delight who blurs the lines of class, politics, and morality. David Afriyie Donkor identifies social performance as a way to understand trickster behavior within the shifting process of political legitimization in Ghana, revealing stories that exploit the social ideologies of economic neoliberalism and political democratization. At the level of policy, neither ideology was completely successful, but Donkor shows how the Ghanaian government was crafty in selling the ideas to the people, adapting trickster-rooted performance techniques to reinterpret citizenship and the common good. Trickster performers rebelled against this takeover of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
African Expressive Cultures
Condition
New
Weight
375g
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253021458
SKU
V9780253021458
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About David Afriyie Donkor
David Afriyie Donkor is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and Africana Studies at Texas A&M University. He is an actor and a director who has adapted several folktales, personal narratives, and literary works for the stage. His scholarly work is published in Ghana Studies, Cultural Studies, Theatre Survey, and TDR.
Reviews for Spiders of the Market: Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism
Overall, as a Ghanaian actor and director as well as a scholar, Donkor's cultural insider analyses of ananse theatre within the space of political economy make important contributions and interventions to the discourses on performance (theory) and neoliberalism and their interaction in Ghana and Africa.
African Studies Review
By sharing the performance experiences, rather than texts, Donkor accomplishes ... Read more
African Studies Review
By sharing the performance experiences, rather than texts, Donkor accomplishes ... Read more