Literature and the pressures of freedom : essays, speeches, and songs / by Femi Osofisan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osofisan, Femi

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Osofisan, Femi--Homes and haunts--Nigeria.

Osofisan, Femi.

Theater--Nigeria--History--20th century.

Theater.

Civilization.

History.

Nigeria--Civilization--20th century.

Nigeria.

Physical Description:

xi, 196, 2-3 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Ibadan [Nigeria] : Opon Ifa Readers, 2001.

Summary:

This volume brings together several of the author's unpublished speeches, papers and literary reflections from the 1980s, 1990s and early twenty first century. Subjects include: the writer, artist and journalist as mirrors of a nation's ethos; press freedom and its enemies; theatre and the question of national development; and literacy, reading and books as integral to cultural freedom. Femi Osofisan is a prolific playwright, literary theorist and critic, poet, novelist and translator who enjoys a reputation as Nigeria's most regularly performed dramatist. He is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Ibadan, and was formerly the director of Nigeria's National Theatre. In all he has written some fifty plays that have been performed all over the world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-195) and index.

ISBN:

9783325973

9789783325975

OCLC:

56011148