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Yorùbá Performance, Theatre and Politics

Staging Resistance

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Glenn Odom

    1. University of Roehampton, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction Performance and Ìfọgbợntáayéṣe: Genre, Knowledge, and Politics

    • Glenn Odom
    Pages 1-26

  3. A Critique of Yorùbá Judgment: Individual Authority, Community Creation, and the Embodiment of Àṣẹ

    • Glenn Odom
    Pages 27-52

  4. What Matter Who Dances?: Self-fashioning, (non)Subjects, and the Nation

    • Glenn Odom
    Pages 53-81

  5. No Victor, No Vanquished, No Past: Ola Rotimi, Yakubu Gowon, Sani Abacha, and ‘The End of Nigerian History’

    • Glenn Odom
    Pages 82-103

  6. Values Beyond Ethics: From Stella Dia Oyedepo to Tess Onwueme

    • Glenn Odom
    Pages 104-133

  7. Conclusions: Civil Governance and the Politics of Yorùbá Theatre

    • Glenn Odom
    Pages 134-154

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 155-162
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About this book

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.

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“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 illuminate a Yoruba vocabulary in particular.” (John Thabiti Willis, TDR: The Drama Review, Vol. 63 (1), 2019)

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  • University of Roehampton, UK

    Glenn Odom

About the author

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.

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