Before Us a Savage God
Self-Fashioning the Nation in Yorùbá Performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14999370 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glenn Odom (0000-0002-6073-9646, Glenn Odom is Assistant Professor of English at Rowan University and is completing a Fulbright Fellowship in Nigeria at University of Ibadan where he is continuing his work on the intersection of performance, theatre, and politics., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 73-85 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TDR/The Drama Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1054-2043 • E-ISSN: 1531-4715 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/dram_a_00071 |
| OpenAlex | W2058961044 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
The concept of identity is in a state of evolution in Yorùbá society, and this evolution works itself out in praise poetry. This poetry is performed in a variety of contexts, and each performance context contributes something distinctive to Yorùbá modernity
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Modernity · Poetry · Praise · Sociology · Yoruba · Computer Science · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · History · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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