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Author | : Nadia Anwar |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2016-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3838268423 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-06-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192559990 |
Download Eastern African Literatures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2016-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3838268563 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2016-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3838268474 |
Download Recognition and Ethics in World Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2017-12-12 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0817371117 |
Download Theatre History Studies 2017, Vol. 36 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Communication |
ISBN | : |
Download Dynamic Concepts and Problems of Communication Development in Nigeria Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John Conteh-Morgan |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2004-10 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0253217016 |
Download African Drama and Performance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mfoniso Udofia |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2018-06-18 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 082223789X |
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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 | : Rosemary N. Edet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
ISBN | : |
Download The Resilience of Religious Tradition in the Dramas of Wole Soyinka and James Ene Henshaw Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle