Glenn Odom
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 2015
9781137492784
Yorùbá Performance, Theatre and Politics
Staging Resistance
Specificaties
Gebonden, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
2015
ISBN13: 9781137492784
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Gratis verzonden
Samenvatting
This book explains the connections between traditional performance (e.g. masked dances, prophecy, praise recitations), contemporary theatre (Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Tess Onwueme, Femi Osofisan, and Stella Oyedepo) , and the political sphere in the context of the Yorùbá people in Nigeria.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781137492784
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Inhoudsopgave
1. Performance and Ìfægbôntáayé«e: Genre, Knowledge, and Politics <br>2. A Critique of Yorùbá Judgment: Individual Authority, Community Creation, and the Embodiment of À«÷<br>3. What Matter Who Dances: Self-fashioning, (non)Subjects, and the Nation<br>4. No Victor, no Vanquished, no Past: Ola Rotimi, Yakubu Gowon, Sani Abacha, and ' 'The End of Nigerian History ' '<br>5. Values beyond Ethics: From Stella Dia Oyedepo to Tess Onwueme<br>6. Conclusions: Civil Governance and the Politics of Yorùbá Theatre<br>Bibliography<br>Index<br>