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African modernity and the philosophy of culture in the works of Femi Euba / Iyunolu Osagie. [electronic resource]

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Black diasporic worlds: origins and evolutions from new world slavingPublication details: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498545679
  • 149854567X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR9387.9.8
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Contents:
Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; Chapter One: Archetypes of Modernity; Chapter Two: Tradition, Modernity, and the Axiological Present in The Gulf and The Eye of Gabriel; Chapter Three: Black Theatre and the Politics of Adaptation in Dionysus of the Holocaust; Chapter Four: Who Pulled the Trigger? Ritual Endings in Femi Euba's A Riddle of the Palms, Crocodiles, and The Chameleon; Chapter Five: Esu as Shape Shifting Word; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; Chapter One: Archetypes of Modernity; Chapter Two: Tradition, Modernity, and the Axiological Present in The Gulf and The Eye of Gabriel; Chapter Three: Black Theatre and the Politics of Adaptation in Dionysus of the Holocaust; Chapter Four: Who Pulled the Trigger? Ritual Endings in Femi Euba's A Riddle of the Palms, Crocodiles, and The Chameleon; Chapter Five: Esu as Shape Shifting Word; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

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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