African Modernity and the Philosophy of Culture in the Works of Femi Euba

African Modernity and the Philosophy of Culture in the Works of Femi Euba
Author :
Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 189
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781498545679
ISBN-13 : 149854567X
Rating : 4/5 (67X Downloads)

Book Synopsis African Modernity and the Philosophy of Culture in the Works of Femi Euba by : Iyunolu Osagie

Download or read book African Modernity and the Philosophy of Culture in the Works of Femi Euba written by Iyunolu Osagie and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a significant and original contribution to the ongoing conversation on modernity. It 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. In addition to a critique of Euba’s fifty-year artistic career, this book offers an account of Euba’s formative relationship with the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Wole Soyinka, during the promising days of the Nigerian theatre in the immediate post-independence period, and the effect of this relationship on Euba’s artistic choices and reflections. Euba contributes to our understanding of Africa’s negotiation of modernity in significant ways, especially in his sensitive reading of Esu, the Yoruba god of fate and chance, as an artistic consciousness whose historical and ideological mobility during New World slavery, during Africa’s colonial period, and in the manifestations in the black diaspora today emblematizes the process we call modernity. By using ritual, myth, and satire as avenues to the debate on modernity, Euba lays emphasis on the transformative possibilities at the crossroads of history. His works engage the psychological interconnections between old gods and new worlds and the dialogic relationship between tradition and modernity. Delineating the philosophical and literary debates that reject an easy division between a stereotypically traditional Africa and a modern West, the author shows how Euba’s plays and novel engage the entwined and intimate relationships between the modern and the traditional in contemporary Africa, and thereby she asserts the global resonance of Euba’s African, and specifically Yoruba, conception of the world. By meticulously collecting, cataloguing, and critiquing Euba’s works, Osagie models a new way of practicing African literary studies and invites us to glimpse narrative genius on the continent that she firmly believes African scholars should both promote and celebrate.


African Modernity and the Philosophy of Culture in the Works of Femi Euba Related Books

African Dionysus
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Muata Ashby
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-30 - Publisher: Sema Institute

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

33. AFRICAN DIONYSUS: FROM EGYPT TO GREECE: The Kamitan Origins of Greek Culture and Religion ISBN: 1-884564-47-X FROM EGYPT TO GREECE This insightful manual is
African Modernity and the Philosophy of Culture in the Works of Femi Euba
Language: en
Pages: 189
Authors: Iyunolu Osagie
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-05 - Publisher: Lexington Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is a significant and original contribution to the ongoing conversation on modernity. It uses the creative and critical works of Nigerian playwright an
Black Dionysus
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-22 - Publisher: McFarland

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Many playwrights, authors, poets and historians have used images, metaphors and references to and from Greek tragedy, myth and epic to describe the African expe
African Drama and Performance
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: John Conteh-Morgan
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-10 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This title explores the diversity of the performing arts in Africa and the diaspora, from studies of major dramatic authors and formal literary dramas to improv
African Athena
Language: en
Pages: 484
Authors: Daniel Orrells
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-27 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

African Athena examines the history of intellectuals and literary writers who contested the white, dominant Euro-American constructions of the classical past an