Contemporary Nigerian Female Playwrights

ISBN-13: 9783659103629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 572 str.

Ngozi Udengwu

Opis

This study examines the content and form of plays written by Nigerian female playwrights, in order to assess their contribution to womens struggle and determine how far their drama contradicts or ratifies the existing image of women in literature. The women whose plays are studied in this work include the pioneers - Sofola and Onwueme - and the emerging ones - Stella Oyedepo, Onyeka Onyekuba, Tracie Utoh-Ezeajugh, Irene Salami-Agunloye and Chinyere Okafor. Through a study of selected plays of each of the seven female playwrights, the work gives an analysis of the thematic preoccupations, ideological orientations, dramatic technique and style of both the pioneer and the emerging female playwrights in Nigeria. The work provides a comprehensive study of Nigerian female playwrights and therefore offers a forum for the discussion of womens plays in Nigeria. It equally makes possible a comparative analysis of the content and form of these womens drama as well as clarifies such issues as feminist aesthetics and feminist theatre in Nigeria.

O autorze

Ngozi Udengwu is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She is the author of over twelve scholarly journal articles and book chapters. She is currently a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies.