Yorùbá Performance, Theatre and Politics: Staging Resistance

by Glenn Odom

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137492784
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/24/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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 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

Editorial Reviews

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)

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