Nigerian Female Dramatists

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000361799
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Nigerian Female Dramatists by : Bosede Funke Afolayan

Download or read book Nigerian Female Dramatists written by Bosede Funke Afolayan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases the important, but often understudied, work of Nigerian women playwrights. As in many spheres of life in Nigeria, in literature and other creative arts the voices of men dominate, and the work of women has often been sidelined. However, Nigerian women playwrights have made important contributions to the development of drama in Nigeria, not just by presenting female identities and inequalities but by vigorously intervening in wider social and political issues. This book draws on perspectives from culture, language, politics, theory, orality and literature, to shine a light on the engaged creativity of women playwrights. From the trail blazing but more traditional contributions of Zulu Sofola, through to contemporary postcolonial work by Tess Osonye Onwueme, Julie Okoh, and Sefi Atta, to name just a few, the book shows the rich variety of work being produced by female Nigerian dramatists. This, the first major collection devoted to Nigerian women playwrights, will be an important resource for scholars of African theatre and performance, literature and women’s studies.

Nigerian Female Dramatists

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781003143833
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Nigerian Female Dramatists by : Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan

Download or read book Nigerian Female Dramatists written by Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book showcases the important, but often understudied, work of Nigerian women playwrights. As in many spheres of life in Nigeria, in literature and other creative arts the voices of men dominate, and the work of women has often been sidelined. However, Nigerian women playwrights have made important contributions to the development of drama in Nigeria, not just by presenting female identities and inequalities but by vigorously intervening in wider social and political issues. This book draws on perspectives from culture, language, politics, theory, orality and literature, to shine a light on the engaged creativity of women playwrights. From the trail blazing but more traditional contributions of Zulu Sofola, through to contemporary postcolonial work by Tess Osonye Onwueme, Julie Okoh, and Sefi Atta, to name just a few, the book shows the rich variety of work being produced by female Nigerian dramatists. This, the first major collection devoted to Nigerian women playwrights, will be an important resource for scholars of African theatre and performance, literature and women's studies"--

African Women Playwrights

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252075730
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis African Women Playwrights by : Kathy A. Perkins

Download or read book African Women Playwrights written by Kathy A. Perkins and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, a distinctive collection of plays by African women published in English

Efuru

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Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478613270
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Book Synopsis Efuru by : Flora Nwapa

Download or read book Efuru written by Flora Nwapa and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appearing in 1966, Efuru was the first internationally published book, in English, by a Nigerian woman. Flora Nwapa (1931–1993) sets her story in a small village in colonial West Africa as she describes the youth, marriage, motherhood, and eventual personal epiphany of a young woman in rural Nigeria. The respected and beautiful protagonist, an independent-minded Ibo woman named Efuru, wishes to be a mother. Her eventual tragedy is that she is not able to marry or raise children successfully. Alone and childless, Efuru realizes she surely must have a higher calling and goes to the lake goddess of her tribe, Uhamiri, to discover the path she must follow. The work, a rich exploration of Nigerian village life and values, offers a realistic picture of gender issues in a patriarchal society as well as the struggles of a nation exploited by colonialism.

Black South African Women

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134673582
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Black South African Women written by Kathy Perkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first anthology to focus on the lives of Black South African women. Includes the work of, and interviews with, award-winning and emerging authors. Contains 6 full-length and 4 one-act plays.

Sweet Revenge

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ISBN 13 : 9781592214563
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (145 download)

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Book Synopsis Sweet Revenge by : Irene Isoken Salami-Agunloye

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Female Empowerment and Dramatic Creativity in Nigeria

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
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Book Synopsis Female Empowerment and Dramatic Creativity in Nigeria by : Mabel I. E. Evwierhoma

Download or read book Female Empowerment and Dramatic Creativity in Nigeria written by Mabel I. E. Evwierhoma and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book] is a research effort by the author, originally as "Ideology, power and powerlessness in female creativity", using Tess Onwueme's plays as a case study. An original and very insightful study, it throws light on female creativity within the sociological matrix of contemporary Africa. The analysis is done with the ideological framework of feminism and womanism with the aim of arousing female consciousness to be more alive to the societal biases that deny them their dignity and womanhood. [This work] is part of a corpus of the on-going battle by female writers and critics to narrow the gap of male dominance in dramatic creativity and appreciation in Africa."--P. [4] of cover.

Modern Anglophone Drama by Women

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Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820488882
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (888 download)

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Book Synopsis Modern Anglophone Drama by Women by : Alan P. Barr

Download or read book Modern Anglophone Drama by Women written by Alan P. Barr and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan P. Barr has brought together eleven world-class modern plays by women that show not only their artistry but also their variety and their passion. Drawn from nine different countries (other than the United States and England) that use English as their literary language, the plays reflect the concerns of women across the globe. The imagery and dramatic conventions may shift and the tones vary, but the need to be strong (and its difficulty), the sense of a world that is anything but nurturing or ideal, and the suspect nature of family life and relations are constant themes. The struggle over language, in countries that are very often ex-colonies, conveys the frequent overlap between feminist and postcolonial focuses. The diversity of Englishes on stages from Singapore to South Africa is a lovely curtain call to this theater festival.

African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443812773
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender by : Sadia Zulfiqar

Download or read book African Women Writers and the Politics of Gender written by Sadia Zulfiqar and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the work of a group of African women writers who have emerged over the last forty years. While figures such as Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri and Wole Soyinka are likely to be the chief focus of discussions of African writing, female authors have been at the forefront of fictional interrogations of identity formation and history. In the work of authors such as Mariama Bâ (Senegal), Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria), Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), and Leila Aboulela (Sudan), there is a clear attempt to subvert the tradition of male writing where the female characters are often relegated to the margins of the culture, and confined to the domestic, private sphere. This body of work has already generated a significant number of critical responses, including readings that draw on gender politics and colonialism, but it is still very much a minor literature, and most mainstream western feminism has not sufficiently processed it. The purpose of this book is three-fold. First, it draws together some of the most important and influential African women writers of the post-war period and looks at their work, separately and together, in terms of a series of themes and issues, including marriage, family, polygamy, religion, childhood, and education. Second, it demonstrates how African literature produced by women writers is explicitly and polemically engaged with urgent political issues that have both local and global resonance: the veil, Islamophobia and a distinctively African brand of feminist critique. Third, it revisits Fredric Jameson’s claim that all third-world texts are “national allegories” and considers these novels by African women in relation to Jameson’s claim, arguing that their work has complicated Jameson’s assumptions.

Critical Engagements on African Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152754043X
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Engagements on African Literature by : Abba A. Abba

Download or read book Critical Engagements on African Literature written by Abba A. Abba and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the critical examination of Isidore Diala’s award-winning poetry and drama, the essays in this collection offer fresh insights on the complex methodological and theoretical patterns underlying the readings of African literary landscapes. This is the first book to devote considerable attention to the study of Diala’s creative works The Pyre (drama) and The Lure of Ash (poetry). The majority of the contributors here are selected from among the finest of Diala’s former teachers, colleagues and students who know him very closely. The collection addresses fertile areas of African literary expression, such as the relationship between literature and national history, African ritual aesthetics; affirmation, denial and ambivalence as products of social constructions; and exile, migration and home-coming. Contributions also explore poetry and poetic truths; semiotics; anticolonial revolutions and postcolonial implosions; oil politics; discontent and militancy; and feminism and gender politics. The book stands out among its peers, and offers great insights to scholars, researchers and teachers working in the fields of African literature, cultures and aesthetics.

Nigerian Female Writers

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Book Synopsis Nigerian Female Writers by : Henrietta C. Otokunefor

Download or read book Nigerian Female Writers written by Henrietta C. Otokunefor and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen contributors from Nigerian universities write on twenty Nigerian women writers. The aim of the editors was to bring into focus the literary contribution of Nigerian women writers up to the present. The writers are grouped into four broad categories: novelists, dramatists, poets, and the children's literature writers. They include the well-known writers, such as Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta and Adaora Ulasi; but also relatively unknown female writers who have contributed to the development of Nigerian literature. The book includes a short biography on each writer; a list of her publications; words about her and a critical analysis of her works.

Second-class Citizen

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Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435909918
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis Second-class Citizen by : Buchi Emecheta

Download or read book Second-class Citizen written by Buchi Emecheta and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adah, a woman from the Ibo tribe, moves to England to live with her Nigerian student husband. She soon discovers that life for a young Nigerian woman living in London in the 1960s is grim. Rejected by British society and thwarted by her husband, who expects her to be subservient to him, she is forced to face up to life as a second-class citizen."--Back cover

The Sweet Trap

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
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Book Synopsis The Sweet Trap by : 'Zulú Ṣofọla

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With Open Eyes

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042001541
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis With Open Eyes by : Kenneth W. Harrow

Download or read book With Open Eyes written by Kenneth W. Harrow and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliografie : p. 193-218 Survey of some projects by female African filmmakers from different countries ; the problematic encounter between Western feminism and African feminist filmmaking practice; the representation of women in African film.

Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316739015
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Book Synopsis Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature by : Nathan Suhr-Sytsma

Download or read book Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature written by Nathan Suhr-Sytsma and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature reveals an intriguing history of relationships among poets and editors from Ireland and Nigeria, as well as Britain and the Caribbean, during the mid-twentieth-century era of decolonization. The book explores what such leading anglophone poets as Seamus Heaney, Christopher Okigbo, and Derek Walcott had in common: 'peripheral' origins and a desire to address transnational publics without expatriating themselves. The book reconstructs how they gained the imprimatur of both local and London-based cultural institutions. It shows, furthermore, how political crises challenged them to reconsider their poetry's publics. Making substantial use of unpublished archival material, Nathan Suhr-Sytsma examines poems in print, often the pages on which they first appeared, in order to chart the transformation of the anglophone literary world. He argues that these poets' achievements cannot be extricated from the transnational networks through which their poems circulated - and which they in turn remade.

Looking for Transwonderland

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 159376491X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Looking for Transwonderland written by Noo Saro-Wiwa and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “remarkable chronicle” of a journey back to this West African nation after years of exile (The New York Times Book Review). Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria—a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. After her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was killed there, she didn’t return for several years. Then she decided to come to terms with the country her father given his life for. Traveling from the exuberant chaos of Lagos to the calm beauty of the eastern mountains; from the eccentricity of a Nigerian dog show to the decrepit kitsch of the Transwonderland Amusement Park, she explores Nigerian Christianity, delves into the country’s history of slavery, examines the corrupting effect of oil, and ponders the huge success of Nollywood. She finds the country as exasperating as ever, and frequently despairs at the corruption and inefficiency she encounters. But she also discovers that it is far more beautiful and varied than she had ever imagined, with its captivating thick tropical rain forest and ancient palaces and monuments—and most engagingly and entertainingly, its unforgettable people. “The author allows her love-hate relationship with Nigeria to flavor this thoughtful travel journal, lending it irony, wit and frankness.” —Kirkus Reviews

Wedlock of the Gods

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Publisher : Evans Brothers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Wedlock of the Gods written by 'Zulú Ṣofọla and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: