Yorb 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 Yor?b? people in Nigeria.1. Performance and ?f?gb?nt?ay??e: Genre, Knowledge, and Politics
2. A Critique of Yor?b? Judgment: Individual Authority, Community Creation, and the Embodiment of ???
3. What Matter Who Dances: Self-fashioning, (non)Subjects, and the Nation
4. No Victor, no Vanquished, no Past: Ola Rotimi, Yakubu Gowon, Sani Abacha, and ' 'The End of Nigerian History ' '
5. Values beyond Ethics: From Stella Dia Oyedepo to Tess Onwueme
6. Conclusions: Civil Governance and the Politics of Yor?b? Theatre
Bibliography
Index

Glenn Odoms Yor?b? Performance, Theatre and Politics creatively links the politics of ritual and theatrical performances to the rhetoric and policies of some of Nigerias leading nationalist politicians and civilian and military leaders from the 1950s to the early 1990s. & A major strength of Odoms 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)

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.