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Yoruba Performance, Theatre and Politics Glenn Odom

Yoruba Performance, Theatre and Politics By Glenn Odom

Yoruba Performance, Theatre and Politics by Glenn Odom

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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 Yoruba people in Nigeria.

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Yoruba Performance, Theatre and Politics: Staging Resistance by Glenn Odom

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 Yoruba people in Nigeria.

Yoruba Performance, Theatre and Politics Reviews

Glenn Odom's Yoruba 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)

About Glenn Odom

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.

Table of Contents

1. Performance and Ifaegbontaayee: Genre, Knowledge, and Politics
2. A Critique of Yoruba Judgment: Individual Authority, Community Creation, and the Embodiment of A
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 Yoruba Theatre
Bibliography
Index

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NPB9781137492784
9781137492784
1137492783
Yoruba Performance, Theatre and Politics: Staging Resistance by Glenn Odom
Glenn Odom
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2015-08-04
162
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