Author: Femi Osofisan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Femi Osofisan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789785400557
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Chima Osakwe
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527521028
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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This book is an extensive and captivating study of the work of Femi Osofisan, one of Nigeria’s most important dramatists and postcolonial playwrights. It explores a variety of his plays to gather together insights on the role of art in social change, and discusses the relationship between literature and politics.

Author: Sola Adeyemi
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152753796X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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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: John Conteh-Morgan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253217016
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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This title explores the diversity of the performing arts in Africa and the diaspora, from studies of major dramatic authors and formal literary dramas to improvisational theatre and popular video films.

Author: Tanure Ojaide
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000053059
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 501

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This handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing with groups of people or regions that suffer marginalization within Africa. The contributors examine a multiplicity of minority discourses expressed in African literature, including those who are culturally, socially, politically, religiously, economically, and sexually marginalized in literary and artistic creations. Chapters and sections of the book are structured to identify major areas of minority articulation of their condition and strategies deployed against the repression, persecution, oppression, suppression, domination, and tyranny of the majority or dominant group. Bringing together diverse perspectives to give a holistic representation of the African reality, this handbook is an important read for scholars and students of comparative and postcolonial literature and African studies.

Author: Jane Plastow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521634434
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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This book focuses on how theatre can make and has made positive political and social interventions.

Author:
Publisher: mujeedah Abdul Aleem
ISBN: 9789781298233
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Author: Gareth Griffiths
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317895851
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 427

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Here is an introduction to the history of English writing from East and West Africa drawing on a range of texts from the slave diaspora to the post-war upsurge in African English language and literature from these regions.

Author: Emmanuel Fru Doh
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739192736
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Against a disturbing political backdrop and through an in-depth appraisal of selected illustrative texts from major genres—poetry, prose, and drama—Emmanuel Fru Doh presents the origins and growth of a young but potent literature. To him, Anglophone-Cameroon literature is a weapon in the hands of an oppressed English speaking minority in his native Cameroon, Africa, who were unfairly manipulated by the United Nations and Britain into a skewed federation in the name of an independence deal.