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Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada).

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Rethinking Greek tragedy in African contexts: A study of Ola Rotimi and Wole Soyinka.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rethinking Greek tragedy in African contexts: A study of Ola Rotimi and Wole Soyinka./
Author:	Quaicoe, Lloydetta Ursula.
Description:	190 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Peter K. Ayers.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International36-04.
Subject:	Biography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=MQ25881
ISBN:	9780612258815

Rethinking Greek tragedy in African contexts: A study of Ola Rotimi and Wole Soyinka.
Quaicoe, Lloydetta Ursula.

Rethinking Greek tragedy in African contexts: A study of Ola Rotimi and Wole Soyinka. - 190 p.

Adviser: Peter K. Ayers.

Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada), 1996.

This study is a critical analysis of two Yoruba (Nigerian) dramatic texts which have been re-worked from fifth-century Greek tragedies: Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not To Blame from Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Wole Soyinka's The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite from Euripides' Bacchae. The purpose of this study is to establish that the essential link between Greek tragedy and modern Nigerian drama is the influence of western education imposed by the British during colonization and to demonstrate that the Nigerian adaptations of canonized western texts are significant within the context of postcolonial discourse and modern African drama.

ISBN: 9780612258815Subjects--Topical Terms:

531296
Biography.

Rethinking Greek tragedy in African contexts: A study of Ola Rotimi and Wole Soyinka.
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520 $a This study is a critical analysis of two Yoruba (Nigerian) dramatic texts which have been re-worked from fifth-century Greek tragedies: Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not To Blame from Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Wole Soyinka's The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite from Euripides' Bacchae. The purpose of this study is to establish that the essential link between Greek tragedy and modern Nigerian drama is the influence of western education imposed by the British during colonization and to demonstrate that the Nigerian adaptations of canonized western texts are significant within the context of postcolonial discourse and modern African drama.
520 $a The study concludes that the re-writing and re-interpreting of fifth-century Greek tragedies, which formed the models for western dramatic art forms, contribute to distinctive discursive practices aimed at challenging and interrogating eurocentric ideologies while authenticating and valorizing pre-colonial Nigerian history and culture. The transformation of ancient Greek originals by modern Nigerian playwrights show how the colonial language and cultural heritage which were used as tools of oppression could be used paradoxically as instruments to undermine and resist that oppression. Postcolonial discourse is marked by this irony. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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