Echoes of Yoruba Oral Traditions in Contemporary Nigerian Dramaturgy
Orality, Modernity, and Hybridity
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Product details:
- Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland
- Date of Publication 17 April 2026
- ISBN 9783032115003
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages236 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations XI, 236 p. 1 illus. 696
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This book discusses the new roles assigned to oral traditions in the works of contemporary playwrights, and asserts that these oral materials, though old, have enduring vitality and relevance for modern-day society. By looking at the African cultural matrix of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria, this book presents a study of the strategies frequently adopted by contemporary Nigerian playwrights to preserve folkloric materials in their creative works and examines how these writers manipulate different forms of oral tradition to bring cultural and social vision to bear in their dramaturgy.
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.- Introduction.- Section I: Reconfiguration of Cultural Traditions & History.- 1. Onomastic Strategies: Names and Naming of Characters.- 2. Myth, Legend, and Poetics of Heroism in Ọba Kòso and Ṣàngó.- 3. History and the Dramatists: The Reenactment of the Nineteenth Century Yoruba Ijaye War in Ọla Rotimi’s Kurunmi and Wale Ogunyẹmi’s Ijaye.- Section II: Echoes of Oral Poetic Genres.- 4. Old Wisdom, New Role: Proverbs in Akinwumi Iṣọla’s Madam Tinubu: Terror in Lagos.- 5. The Art of Praise Singing (Oríkì) in Modern Drama.- 6. Reconfiguration of Folk songs in the Dramaturgy of Akinwumi Iṣọla, Wọle Ṣoyinka, and Fẹmi Ọṣọfisan.- Section III: Orality and Aesthetic Transfer in Video Films.- 7. Ifá Divination Motif in Yoruba Video Films.- 8. Orature, Aesthetic Transfer, and Social Vision in Ṣaworoidẹ and Agogo Èèwọ̀.
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