附註:103年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫規劃主題:藝術學:全球化與劇場跨界
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Re-visionary history as myth performance: a postcolonial re-reading of Maud Cuney-Hare's Antar of Araby, Willis Richardson's The Black horseman, and Aimé Césaire's And the dogs were silent -- The Òrìsà paradigm: an overview of African-derived mythology, folklore, and kinesthetic dance performative -- Performative body language in Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Lynn Nottage's Ruined: African female bodies through African American eyes -- The codification of soul in African-derived dance culture -- Of rebels, tricksters, and supernatural beings: toward a semiotics of myth performance in African Caribbean and Afro-Brazilian dramas -- Of princesses and queens: the mythical journeys home in Djanet Sears' Afrika, solo and Rebecca Fisseha's Wise.woman.