Politics and aesthetics : essays in drama, theatre and performance
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Type of record: Book
Title: Politics and aesthetics : essays in drama, theatre and performance
Classmark: Banham Collection
Creator(s): Obafemi, Olu (1950-)
Publisher: Haytee Press and Publishing Co. Ltd
Publication city: Ilorin, Nigeria
Date(s): [2008]
Language: English
Size and medium: v, 215 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/655005
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003249959705181
Description
"September, 2008"--Preface.
"In conjunction with Ajon Creators Series."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drama : its nature and purpose -- The fundamentals of drama, theatre and performance -- Identity and social contexts of cultural transfer in black drama -- The development of Nigerian dramatic literature -- Rekindling and redefining popular theatre aesthetics and praxis in Africa -- Aesthetics and ideology in Nigerian theatre -- Society and the ideological content of drama in Nigeria -- Revolutionary aesthetics in recent Nigerian theatre -- The role of the theatre in sustaining democracy in Nigeria -- Making a difference through theatre in a democracy -- The Yoruba operatic theatre : a world in search of harmony and social order : Ladipo, Ogunde and Olaiya -- Inter-textualism as radical aesthetics and ideology in Osofisan's theatre -- Aesthetic and social context in the masque-dance of Bunu : the example of Okura Ensemble -- Towards feminist aesthetics in Nigerian drama : the plays of Tess Onwueme -- Tradition and social vision in Sofola's theatre.
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