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Subtitle: discourses, strategies, and power in the Yorùbá play of transformation
By: Cristina Boscolo
Series: Cross cultures -- 111; Cross/cultures -- 111.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9789042026803; 9789042026810
Subjects: Drama; Yoruba (African people); Mythology, Yoruba, in literature; History and criticism; Yoruba drama; Rites and ceremonies; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-337).

Text in English; some passages in Yoruban with English translations.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I, Discourses. Bí báun kọ́ I. Yorùbá theatre : an introductory outline ; Nigerian theatre criticism : 'dominant' issues ; Critical discourses and their power; title: Intermezzo. Bí báun kọ́ II. Coordinates of an interpretation; title: Pt. II, Ọdún. Bí báun kọ́ III. Ọdún Edì ; Egúngún : the power of the ancestors ; Ààbọ̀ Ọ̀rọ̀ : the Yorùbá play of transformation.