Yoruba Performance, Theatre and Politics by Glenn Odom

Yoruba Performance, Theatre and Politics by Glenn Odom

This book explains the connections between traditional performance (e.g. masked dances, prophecy, praise recitations), contemporary theatre (Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Tess Onwueme, Femi Osofisan, and Stella Oyedepo) , and the political sphere in the context of the Yoruba people in Nigeria.

“Glenn Odom’s Yorùbá Performance, Theatre and Politics creatively links the politics of ritual and theatrical performances to the rhetoric and policies of some of Nigeria’s leading nationalist politicians and civilian and military leaders from the 1950s to the early 1990s… A major strength of Odom’s work is the rich array of ethnographic and oral sources that he uses to illuminate a Yoruba vocabulary in particular.” (John Thabiti Willis, TDR: The Drama Review, Vol. 63 (1), 2019)

Glenn Odom is Senior Lecturer at the University of Roehampton, UK. His previous publications include articles in journals such as Comparative Drama, Comparative Literature, TDR (The Drama Review) and Studies in English Literature.

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ISBN 13	9781137492784
ISBN 10	1137492783
Title	Yoruba Performance, Theatre and Politics
Author	Glenn Odom
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	2015-08-04
Number of pages	162
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