Matthew J. Christensen is professor of literature and cultural studies at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley. His publications include Rebellious Histories: The Amistad Slave Revolt and the Cultures of Late Twentieth-Century Black Transnationalism and articles on Anglophone African detective fiction.
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Staging the Amistad
Three Sierra Leonean Plays
By Charlie Haffner, Yulisa Amadu Maddy, and Raymond E. D. de’Souza George
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Edited by Matthew J. Christensen
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Introduction by Matthew J. Christensen
Staging the Amistad collects for the first time plays about the Amistad slave revolt by three of Sierra Leone’s most influential playwrights of the latter decades of the 20th century. Written and staged before and after the start of Sierra Leone’s decade-long conflict, they brought the Amistad rebellion to public consciousness.
Staging the Amistad
Three Sierra Leonean Plays
By Charlie Haffner, Yulisa Amadu Maddy, and Raymond E. D. de’Souza George
·
Edited by Matthew J. Christensen
·
Introduction by Matthew J. Christensen
Staging the Amistad collects for the first time plays about the Amistad slave revolt by three of Sierra Leone’s most influential playwrights of the latter decades of the 20th century. Written and staged before and after the start of Sierra Leone’s decade-long conflict, they brought the Amistad rebellion to public consciousness.
