Yoruba Performance, Theatre and Politics

Staging Resistance

Glenn Odom (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

162 Seiten

2014 | 2015 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-58131-3 (ISBN)

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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.

1. Performance and Ìfægbôntáayé«e: Genre, Knowledge, and Politics

2. A Critique of Yorùbá Judgment: Individual Authority, Community Creation, and the Embodiment of À«÷3. What Matter Who Dances: Self-fashioning, (non)Subjects, and the Nation4. No Victor, no Vanquished, no Past: Ola Rotimi, Yakubu Gowon, Sani Abacha, and ' 'The End of Nigerian History ' '5. Values beyond Ethics: From Stella Dia Oyedepo to Tess Onwueme6. Conclusions: Civil Governance and the Politics of Yorùbá TheatreBibliographyIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Schlagworte	African performance • international performance • Yorùbá performance
ISBN-10	1-349-58131-3 / 1349581313
ISBN-13	978-1-349-58131-3 / 9781349581313
Zustand	Neuware