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Echoes of Yoruba Oral Traditions in Contemporary Nigerian Dramaturgy: Orality, Modernity, and Hybridity

Echoes of Yoruba Oral Traditions in Contemporary Nigerian Dramaturgy: Orality, Modernity, and Hybridity

Akinyemi, Akintunde

Hardcover

African HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesTheater History

ISBN10: 3032115000
ISBN13: 9783032115003
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Apr 17 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.22 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This book discusses the new roles assigned to oral traditions in the works of contemporary playwrights, and asserts that these oral materials, though old, have enduring vitality and relevance for modern-day society. By looking at the African cultural matrix of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria, this book presents a study of the strategies frequently adopted by contemporary Nigerian playwrights to preserve folkloric materials in their creative works and examines how these writers manipulate different forms of oral tradition to bring cultural and social vision to bear in their dramaturgy.

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