Yoruba Performance, Theatre and Politics - Staging Resistance

Zusatztext "Glenn Odom's Yorùbá Performance! Theatre and Politics creatively links the politics of ritual and theatrical performances to the rhetoric and policies of some of Nigeria's leading nationalist politicians and civilian and military leaders from the 1950s to the early 1990s. ? A major strength of Odom's work is the rich array of ethnographic and oral sources that he uses to illuminate a Yoruba vocabulary in particular." (John Thabiti Willis! TDR: The Drama Review! Vol. 63 (1)! 2019) Informationen zum Autor Glenn Odom is Senior Lecturer at the University of Roehampton, UK. His previous publications include articles in journals such as Comparative Drama, Comparative Literature, TDR (The Drama Review) and Studies in English Literature. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Nation 4. 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 Onwueme 6. Conclusions: Civil Governance and the Politics of Yorùbá Theatre Bibliography Index ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Glenn Odom, Glenn A. Odom
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.06.2015
• EAN: 9781137492784
• ISBN: 978-1-137-49278-4
• Pagine: 173
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto; Theater, Tradition, Darstellende Künste, B, Performing Arts, Theatre, Resistance, The arts: general issues, Arts, Theatre Studies, Subject, Geschichte der darstellenden Künste, Theatre and Performance Arts, Theater—History, Theatre History, Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection, Theatre and Performance Studies, Kunst: allgemeine Themen