Vision and Commitment in African Drama
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Release : 1975
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Release : 1975
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Author : Sola Adeyemi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 152753796X
Fémi Òsófisan is a major dramatist from Nigeria who experiments with forms and theatrical traditions. This book focuses on his development as a dramatist and his contribution to world drama as a postcolonial African writer whose major preoccupation has been to question the colonial and postcolonial issues of identity in theatre, literature and performance. The volume explores how Òsófisan exploits his Yorùbá heritage in his drama and the performances of his plays by reading new meanings into popular mythology, and by re-writing history to comment on contemporary social and political issues. Òsófisan has often introduced new motifs and narratives to energise dramatic performances in Nigeria and globally, and this text discusses developments in his theatre practices in the context of changing cultural trends.
Author : Michael Etherton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 14,19 MB
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1000952525
Originally published in 1982, this book explores concepts such as ‘traditional performance’ and African theatre’. It analyses the links between drama and ritual, and drama and music and diagnoses the confusions in our thought. The reader is reminded that drama is never merely the printed word, but that its existence as literature and in performance is necessarily different. The analysis shows that literature tends to replace performance; and drama, removed from the popular domain, becomes elitist. The book’s richness lies in the constantly stimulating analysis of ‘art’ theatre, as exemplified in protest plays, in African adaptations and transpositions of such classical subjects as the Bacchae and Everyman, in plays on African history, on colonialism and neo-colonialism. The final chapters argue that the form of African drama needs to evolve as the content does.
Author : Foreign Affairs Research Documentation Center
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Page : 148 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Author : Foreign Affairs Research Documentation Center
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Page : 822 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Economic history
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Author : Donatus Ibe Nwoga
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Page : 174 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Administrative agencies
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Author : Helon Habila
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393325119
Lomba is a young journalist living under military rule in Lagos, Nigeria, the most dangerous city in the world. His mind is full of soul music and girls and the lyric novel he is writing. But his neighbors on Poverty Street are planning a demonstration that is bound to incite riot and arrests. Lomba can no longer bury his head in the sand.
Author : Damlègue Lare
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Page : 560 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 2019-01-30
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ISBN : 9783962030278
This book presents a contour of the literary theories and critical approaches in modern African drama. Theories are discussed against the backdrop of modern African drama and include Symbolism, Naturalism, Nativism, the quest for Indigenous Aesthetics, Oral Narratives, Narratology, Marxism, Cultural Materialism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Psycho-analytic criticism, New Historicism, Ecocriticism, Feminism, Postcolonialism and Intertextuality. The objective is to offer researchers and scholars of modern African drama a comprehensive approach of the discipline of African drama from theoretical perspective. Critical debates on the possibility of reading African drama with the lenses of contemporary literary theories have been controversial among critics of African literature. Some critics have been asserting that African drama should be theory-free in its intellectual and scholarly interpretation. Others opine that modern African drama should be analyzed within the mainstream of African literature alongside the novel and poetry. This book seeks to revert these views by pointing out the importance of theories in the interpretation and understanding of African drama.
Author : Benedict M. Ìbítókun
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Olu Obafemi
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Page : 186 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Africa
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