Dynamics Of Distancing In Nigerian Drama

Author : Nadia Anwar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783838268422

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Dynamics of Distancing in Nigerian Drama by Nadia Anwar Pdf

Nadia Anwar analyzes selected post-independence Nigerian dramas using the conceptual framework of metatheatre, a theatrical strategy that foregrounds the process of play-making by breaking the dramatic illusion. She argues that distancing, as a function of metatheatre, creates a balanced theatrical experience and environment in terms of the emotive and cognitive levels of reception of a particular performance. Anwar's book is the first in-depth study to apply the concept of metatheatre to Nigerian drama. She brings the perspectives of Bertolt Brecht, Thomas J. Scheff, and other theoreticians of dramatic distancing to the analysis of plays by authors such as Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Femi Osofisan, Esiaba Irobi, and Stella ‘Dia Oyedepo.

Author : Russell West-Pavlov
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192559999

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Eastern African Literatures by Russell West-Pavlov Pdf

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. This volume offers an overview of contemporary Eastern African writing in English since the mid-twentieth century. It takes a fresh look at what has been an under-represented regional literary tradition within what continues to be an under-represented continental literary tradition. In particular, it broadens the scope of such an overview, complementing the extant monographs on well-known Eastern African writers such as Ngũgĩ to include a host of more recent, less-publicized novelists, dramatists, and poets. It extends the geographical range of existing studies from the familiar triad of Kenyan, Ugandan, and Tanzanian traditions of writing in English, to include the lesser-known Somali, Ethiopian, or Sudanese, or Mauritian or Madagascan traditions. Rather than simply addressing national traditions or broad thematic bundles, the volume treats works as literatures of a region: that is, as literatures of place and space. Eastern African Literatures stresses the formative role of space, place and geography in fashioning the fabric of social interaction, whether individual or collective, in generating history, in moulding identities, and as a consequence in defining the shape of the future. The 'spatial' perspectives allow the 'proximate' rather than the 'distant' influence of literary art to come into view. Proximate modes of literary communication, arising out of residual but vibrant traditions of oral communication, blend with contemporary media to produce hybrid genres of proximity specific to Eastern African literary production. In this way, the book also makes a contribution to the ongoing theorization of literary and cultural innovation in the cultures of the Global South.

Author : Bruce King
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783838268569

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From New National to World Literature by Bruce King Pdf

From New National to World English Literature offers a personal perspective on the evolution of a major cultural movement that began with decolonization, continued with the assertion of African, West Indian, Commonwealth, and other literatures, and has evolved through postcolonial to world or international English literature. Bruce King, one of the pioneers in the study of the new national literatures and still an active literary critic, discusses the personalities, writers, issues, and contexts of what he considers the most important change in culture since modernism. In this selection of forty-five essays and reviews, King discusses issues such as the emergence and aesthetics of African literature, the question of the existence of a “Nigerian literature”, the place of the new universities in decolonizing culture, the contrasting models of American and Irish literatures, and the changing nature of exile and diasporas. He emphasizes themes such as traditionalism versus modernism, the dangers of cultural assertion, and the relationships between nationalism and internationalism. Special attention is given to Nigerian, West Indian, Australian, Indian, and Pakistani literature.

Author : Vincent van Bever Donker
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783838268477

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Recognition and Ethics in World Literature by Vincent van Bever Donker Pdf

Recognition and Ethics in World Literature is a critical comparative study of contemporary world literature, focusing on the importance of the ethical turn (or return) in literary theory. The book examines the ethical engagement of novels by Amitav Ghosh, Chimamanda Adichie, Caryl Phillips, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zadie Smith, and J. M. Coetzee, exploring the overlap and divergence between Levinasian/Derridean and Aristotelian ethics. Recognitions and emotional responses are integral to the unfolding of ethical concerns, and the ethics they explore are often marked by the complexity and impurity characteristic of the tragic. Recognition is particularly suitable for the concerns of world literature authors in its interconnection of the universal and the particular—a binary that has been crucial in postcolonialism and remains important for the wider field of world literature. This study builds its analysis around three broad themes: religion, the memory of violence, and the human.

Author : Sara Freeman
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780817371111

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Theatre History Studies 2017, Vol. 36 by Sara Freeman Pdf

Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice.

Author : Nwaokedi Amatokwu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Communication
ISBN : UCAL:B3837191

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Dynamic Concepts and Problems of Communication Development in Nigeria by Nwaokedi Amatokwu Pdf

Author : John Conteh-Morgan,Tejumola Olaniyan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780253217011

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African Drama and Performance by John Conteh-Morgan,Tejumola Olaniyan Pdf

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 : Olu Obafemi
Publisher : Bayreuth African Studies
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019504443

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Contemporary Nigerian Theatre by Olu Obafemi Pdf

Author : Chris Dunton
Publisher : Bowker-Saur
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015047474450

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Nigerian Theatre in English by Chris Dunton Pdf

Author : Rosemary N. Edet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040571262

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The Resilience of Religious Tradition in the Dramas of Wole Soyinka and James Ene Henshaw by Rosemary N. Edet Pdf

Author : Mfoniso Udofia
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822237891

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Her Portmanteau by Mfoniso Udofia Pdf

HER PORTMANTEAU is an installment in the Ufot Cycle, Udofia’s sweeping, nine-part saga which chronicles the triumphs and losses of Abasiama Ufot, a Nigerian immigrant, and her family. As Nigerian traditions clash with the realities of American life, Abasiama and her daughters must confront complex familial legacies that span time, geography, language and culture.

Author : Joel Adeyinka Adedeji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Nigerian drama (English)
ISBN : IND:30000060905670

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Nigerian Theatre: The theatre in Yoruba by Joel Adeyinka Adedeji Pdf

Author : Bode Sowande
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Nigerian drama (English)
ISBN : IND:30000026283717

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Tornadoes Full of Dreams by Bode Sowande Pdf

Author : Alfonso Gumucio Dagron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Theater
ISBN : NWU:35556031899461

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Popular Theatre in Nigeria by Alfonso Gumucio Dagron Pdf

Author : Patricia Hayes,Gary Minkley
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821446881

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Ambivalent by Patricia Hayes,Gary Minkley Pdf

Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa. The volume presents African relationships with photography—and with visibility more generally—in ways that engage and disrupt the easy categories and genres that have characterized the field to date. Contributors pose new questions concerning the instability of the identity photograph in South Africa; ethnographic photographs as potential history; humanitarian discourse from the perspective of photographic survivors of atrocity photojournalism; the nuanced passage from studio to screen in postcolonial digital portraiture; and the burgeoning visual activism in West Africa. As the contributors show, photography is itself a historical subject: it involves arrangement, financing, posture, positioning, and other kinds of work that are otherwise invisible. By moving us outside the frame of the photograph itself, by refusing to accept the photograph as the last word, this book makes photography an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Ambivalent‘s contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories. Contributors: George Emeka Agbo, Isabelle de Rezende, Jung Ran Forte, Ingrid Masondo, Phindi Mnyaka, Okechukwu Nwafor, Vilho Shigwedha, Napandulwe Shiweda, Drew Thompson