Iyunolu Osagie

African Modernity and the Philosophy of Culture in the Works of Femi Euba

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the creative and critical works of Nigerian playwright and novelist Femi Euba to demonstrate the place and function of African cultures in modernity. The author makes the case for the vibrancy of such cultures in the shaping and constitution of the modern world.

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Produktdetails

• Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781498545662
• ISBN-10: 1498545661
• Artikelnr.: 47876859

Autorenporträt

By Iyunolu Osagie - Foreword by John Wharton Lowe

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
by John Wharton Lowe Preface Chapter 1: Archetypes of Modernity Chapter 2: Tradition
Modernity
and the Axiological Present in The Gulf and The Eye of Gabriel Chapter 3: Black Theatre and the Politics of Adaptation in Dionysus of the Holocaust Chapter 4: Who Pulled the Trigger? Ritual Endings in Femi Euba's A Riddle of the Palms
Crocodiles
and The Chameleon Chapter 5: Esu as Shape Shifting Word: Modernity
African Gnosis
and Global Reverberations in Camwood at Crossroads Afterword: The Performance of Culture Bibliography