Overview

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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Author:   Akintunde Akinyemi
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783032115003

ISBN 10:   3032115000
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   11 April 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

.- Introduction.- Section I: Reconfiguration of Cultural Traditions & History.- 1. Onomastic Strategies: Names and Naming of Characters.- 2. Myth, Legend, and Poetics of Heroism in Ọba Kòso and Ṣàngó.- 3. History and the Dramatists: The Reenactment of the Nineteenth Century Yoruba Ijaye War in Ọla Rotimi’s Kurunmi and Wale Ogunyẹmi’s Ijaye.- Section II: Echoes of Oral Poetic Genres.- 4. Old Wisdom, New Role: Proverbs in Akinwumi Iṣọla’s Madam Tinubu: Terror in Lagos.- 5. The Art of Praise Singing (Oríkì) in Modern Drama.- 6. Reconfiguration of Folk songs in the Dramaturgy of Akinwumi Iṣọla, Wọle Ṣoyinka, and Fẹmi Ọṣọfisan.- Section III: Orality and Aesthetic Transfer in Video Films.- 7.           Ifá Divination Motif in Yoruba Video Films.- 8. Orature, Aesthetic Transfer, and Social Vision in Ṣaworoidẹ and Agogo Èèwọ̀.

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Akintunde Akinyemi is Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.

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