Ọdún : : discourses, strategies, and power in the Yorùbá play of transformation /

Ọdún : : discourses, strategies, and power in the Yorùbá play of transformation / / Cristina Boscolo.

A poetic ‘voice’ scans the rhythm of academic research, telling of the encounter with odún ; then the voice falls silent. What is then raised is the dust of a forgotten academic debate on the nature of theatre and drama, and the following divergent standpoints of critical discourses bent on empoweri...

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Superior document:Cross cultures ; 111
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Boscolo, Cristina.
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2009.
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Cross/Cultures 111.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxx, 337 pages) :; illustrations.
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Bíi báun kợ I
  • Yorùbá Theatre: An Introductory Outline
  • Nigerian Theatre Criticism: ‘Dominant’ Issues
  • Critical Discourses and Their Power
  • Bíi báun kợ II
  • Coordinates of an Interpretation
  • Bíi báun kợ III
  • Ọdún Edì
  • Egúngún: The Power of the Ancestors
  • Ààbó Óró… The Yorùbá Play of Transformation
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography.

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