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Ọdún : discourses, strategies, and power in the Yorùbá play of transformation /

A poetic ‘voice’ scans the rhythm of academic research, telling of the encounter with odún ; then the voice falls silent. What is then raised is the dust of a forgotten academic debate on the nature of theatre and drama, and the following divergent standpoints of critical discourses bent on empower...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boscolo, Cristina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Yoruba
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.
Colección:Cross/cultures ; 111.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Acknowledgments -- Notes on orthography -- Mo bà ọdún pàdé = Encounter with ọdún -- Introduction -- pt. I, Discourses. Bí báun kọ́ I. Yorùbá theatre : an introductory outline ; Nigerian theatre criticism : 'dominant' issues ; Critical discourses and their power -- Intermezzo. Bí báun kọ́ II. Coordinates of an interpretation -- pt. II, Ọdún. Bí báun kọ́ III. Ọdún Edì ; Egúngún : the power of the ancestors ; Ààbọ̀ Ọ̀rọ̀ : the Yorùbá play of transformation. 
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