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Yorùbá Performance, Theatre and Politics: Staging Resistance
Glenn Odom
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Description for Yorùbá Performance, Theatre and Politics: Staging Resistance
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 173 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; AN; JFSL3; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
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.
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
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
162
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137492784
SKU
V9781137492784
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Ref
99-15
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.
Reviews for Yorùbá Performance, Theatre and Politics: Staging Resistance
“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 ... Read more