Nigerian Female Dramatists: Expression, Resistance, Agency

ISBN-13: 9780367616106 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 192 str.

Afolayan Bosede Funke

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. The Onye-Nka of African Drama: Zulu Sofola and the Development of African Tragic Drama 2. Theatricalising Precarity: A Study of Tess Onwueme’s No Vacancy! 3. Navigating Morality in the Plays of Stella Oyedepo 4. Rethinking the Female Image in Irene Salami’s Sweet Revenge and More than Dancing 5. Postcolonial Women’s Drama in Nigeria as Cultural Intervention 6. "It’s a short distance from Sontag": Chinyere Okafor’s New Toyi-Toyi as Militant Feminism 7. Sefi Atta as a Dramatist: A Study of Two Plays 8. "Wedlock of Rage": Youth Restiveness in Zulu Sofola and Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan’s Drama 9. Language, Gender and Cultural Practices in the Plays of Two Nigerian Female Playwrights 10. Misandry and Conspiracy of Silence in Zainabu Jallo’s and Tosin Tume’s plays 11. Se "Iya" ni’wo yi?: Questioning Motherhood in Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan’s Drama 12. Orality as a Means of Projecting Authorial Vision in Osita Ezenwanebe’s Withered Thrust and Shadows on Arrival 13. The Urban Woman in an Urban Space: A Study of Selected Plays of Chidinma Daniel-Inim

O autorze

Bosede Funke Afolayan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Lagos, Nigeria.