The Convert
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Product details:
- Publisher Methuen Drama
- Date of Publication 19 September 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350366275
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages144 pages
- Size 196x128x10 mm
- Weight 122 g
- Language English 597
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Long description:
It's 1896 in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Jekesai, a young Shona girl, escapes a forced arranged marriage by converting to Christianity and becoming a protégé to an African Evangelical. As anti-colonial sentiments spread throughout the native population, Jekesai is forced to choose between her family's traditions and her newfound faith.
This Student Edition of Danai Gurira's 2012 play The Convert includes a commentary by Aviva Neff.
Table of Contents:
Chronology
Commentary
Playwright
Overview of her other works; connection to Blank Panther
Cultural/Historical Context & Themes
British Colonialism, enslavement, the collision of indigenous religions & Catholicism, the loss and rediscovery of faith, women's rights & gendered hierarchies, war, race, "civilization"
Relationship to other art & literature on colonisation (such as Nottage's Ruined and Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman)
Religious radicalism: then and now
Characters
Jekesai/"Ester" as a lens for experiencing the rise of Christian colonialism
Mai Tamba's religious duality
Chilford as the "model" convert
Place
Mashona & Matabeleland / Rhodesia
Language
Different forms of language (including Chishona)
Language and culture and its links to politics and identity
Play in performance
Costume, music and movement
Influences
George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion
Black Panther
Productions and adaptations
Overview of production history and critical casting, including its world premiere at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, and the play's place in Kwame Kwei-Armah's inaugural season at the Young Vic, London
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