African modernity and the philosophy of culture in the works of Femi Euba / Iyunolu Osagie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osagie, Iyunolu Folayan, 1960- author.

Series:

Black diasporic worlds

Black diasporic worlds: origins and evolutions from new world slaving

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Euba, Femi--Criticism and interpretation.

Euba, Femi.

Africa--In literature.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 155 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]

Summary:

African Modernity and the Philosophy of Culture in the Works of Femi Euba uses the creative and critical works of Nigerian playwright and novelist Femi Euba to demonstrate the place and function of African cultures in modernity and makes the case for the vibrancy of such cultures in the shaping and constitution of the modern world. Delineating the philosophical and literary debates that reject an easy division between a stereotypically traditional Africa and a modern West, this book shows how Euba's plays and novel engage the entwined and intimate relationships between the modern and the traditional in contemporary Africa, and thereby asserts the global resonance of Euba's African, and specifically Yoruba, conception at the world. By meticulously collecting, cataloguing, and critiquing Euba's works, this book models a new way of practicing African literary studies and invites us to glimpse narrative genius on the continent. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Archetypes of Modernity 1

2 Tradition, Modernity, and the Axiological Present in The Gulf and The Eye of Gabriel 27

3 Black Theatre and the Politics of Adaptation in Dionysus of the Holocaust 59

4 Who Pulled the Trigger? Ritual Endings in Femi Euba's A Riddle of the Palms, Crocodiles, and The Chameleon 95

5 Esu as Shape Shifting Word: Modernity, African Gnosis, and Global Reverberations in Camwood at Crossroads 113.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Osagie, Iyunolu Folayan, 1960- author. African modernity and the philosophy of culture in the works of Femi Euba

ISBN:

9781498545662

1498545661

OCLC:

979567734