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Esu-Elegbas Crossroads - Transcultural Creativity in the Works of Femi Euba

English · Hardback

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This book features a collection of essays and testimonials that provide new perspectives and incisive criticism on the writings and theatrical productions of Nigerian American author, director, and theorist Femi Euba.


List of contents










Introduction: Crossroads of generational thinking 1. The Man Died: Wole Soyinka's imprisonment and the Yoruba trickster tale in Femi Euba's Tortoise! 2. Ritual and theatre at the crossroads of poetics, politics and epistemology: Femi Euba (and WS) 3. Esu's crossroads and Ogun's crossing over: Intercultural creativity and postcolonial futurity in the theater of Femi Euba 4. Words to choreograph: Ritual archetypes of/at Esu's crossroads 5. Camwood: African and African American identities at the crossroads 6. Myth, performance, and creation: The achievement of Femi Euba 7. A conversation between Femi Euba, Wole Soyinka and Biodun Jeyifo 8. Globalization and a grain of salt: Reflections of a participating emigrant-playwright


About the author










Eric Mayer-García is Assistant Professor of Theatre History, Theory, and Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has published research on vanguard theatre, latinidad, and theatre historiography in Theatre Survey, Journal of American Folklore, Atlantic Studies, Theatre History Studies, Chiricú Journal, Theatre Journal, and various edited collections.
Solimar Otero is Professor of Folklore and Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures (2020), and co-editor, with Anthony Bak Buccitelli, of Emerging Perspectives in the Study of Folklore and Performance (2025).


Product details

Authors Eric Otero Mayer-Garcia
Assisted by Eric Mayer-García (Editor), Otero Solimar (Editor)
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 25.04.2025
 
EAN 9781032978352
ISBN 978-1-0-3297835-2
No. of pages 136
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet

LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Africa, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Literary theory, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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