Emerging perspectives on Femi Osofisan / edited by Tunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola
- Published:
- Trenton NJ : Africa World Press, [2009]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2009
- Physical Description:
- x, 481 : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Falola, Toyin and Akinyemi, Tunde
- Contents:
- Femi Osofisan in the wilderness of our generation's dilemmas / Biodun Jeyifo -- The postcolonial state and its texts of meanings: Femi Osofisan's dramaturgy as paradigm / James Tar Tsaaior -- National development and the concept of compassion in Osofisan's Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels / Adebola Adebambo Ademeso -- A wasted breed and a grasshopper's Oriki: interrogating ideological concerns and character metastasis in selected plays of Femi Osofisan / Hope O. Eghagha -- Conflict resolution in Femi Osofisan's Another Raft and Farewell to a Cannibal Rage: models for the attainment of peace in Kaduna State, Nigeria / Alexander Kure -- The political consciousness in African literature: a critical analysis of selected plays of Femi Osofisan / Sola Owonibi --Re-ordering humanity: Femi Osofisan's backward glance in One Legend, Many Seasons / Henri Oripeloye -- The beginning of the end: seed choked by Tars in Femi Osofisan's Birthdays are not for Dying / Busuyi Mekusi -- Femi Osofisan: popularity of his audience or audience of his popularity?: a survey of two Nigerian university communities / Festus Ogu Idoko -- Religion, corruption, and democratic Nigeria in Femi Osofisan's drama / Victoria O. Adeniyi -- Anger, women, and the drama of Femi Osofisan: a study of Altine's Wrath / Bose F. Afolayan -- The feminism of Femi Osofisan / Ngozi Udengwu -- Sexuality and sexploitation in Osofisan's theater: a reading of the midnight series / Oluchi Joyce Igili -- African literature and the reconstruction of womanhood: a study of selected plays of Femi Osofisan / Sola Owonibi -- Spousal communication in Osofisan's Restless Breed / Ayodele Ajulo -- Modern African drama and the emergence of Femi Osofisan's (neo-rationalist) theater: towards a poetics / Ademola Omobewaji Dasylva -- Femi Osofisan: From mimesis to dramatic maturation-a canonical exploration of a general icon / Diran Ademiju-Bepo -- Gone with the western wind: popular genres in the essays of Femi Osofisan / Tiziana Morosetti -- "Figures of Fantasy": theatricalizing devices in Femi Osofisan's Another Raft / Kacke Gotrick -- Language use in Osofisan's Tegonni / Samuel Alaba Akinwotu -- The action-language dialectic in Femi Osofisan's dramaturgy / Uko Atai -- Tones and the revolution: music, metaphor, and revolutionary concord in the plays of Femi Osofisan / Omotayo Oloruntoba-Oju -- The trope of the market in Femi Osofisan's dramaturgy / Gbemisola Adeoti -- Myth, meta-aestheticism, and the challenge of Femi Osofisan's dramaturgy / Omotayo Oloruntoba-Oju -- From mythology to materiality: Osofisan's reincarnation of Moremi myth in Morountodun / Edde E Iji -- Yeepa Solaarin n Bo: a co-translator's experience of Femi Osofisan's Who is Afraid of Solarin? / Philip Adedotun Ogundeji -- From Red is the Freedom Road to Ona Ominira Ona Eje: translation or cultural retrieval? / Laide Sheba
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- ISBN:
- 1592216986
9781592216987
1592216994 (pbk.)
9781592216994 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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