When Power Swallows its Grace
Poetics, Politics, and Performance in Postcolonial Nigeria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8933391 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tosin Gbogi (0000-0002-0019-6395, Twitter (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 132 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 268-289 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.2021.1883853 |
| OpenAlex | W3200895334 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 37 |
This article theorizes the artful life of power in Nigeria. Focusing on the short call-and-response chants, the extended narrative songs, the proverbial allusions, the bald invectives, and the poetic speeches that political parties deploy within the context of elections in Nigeria, it poses and engages with questions that lie at the intersection of poetry, politics, and performance. The article asks specifically: in what ways do the verbal arts of abuse and duelling emerge outside performative spaces within which they have been traditionally studied? In what contemporary forms do they appear that transcend the often-linear approach that conceives of them as the quotidian mechanisms of resistance for ‘the powerless’? This article suggests that to fully engage with these questions, we must be ready to shift our understanding of subjection and domination as well as of tradition and modernity
Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Literature · Modernity · Narrative · Performative utterance · Performativity · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Theatre and Performance Studies
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Homo Sacer
The Dozens
Language and Politics
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Postproverbials in Yoruba Culture
Mouth with Which the King Curses
Yoruba Ritual
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Explorations in Animist Materialism
On the Postcolony
Oral literature in Africa
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Distinction. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
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Word Play in Yoruba Poetry
Griots at War
The boundary between play and nonplay in black verbal dueling
What no bedtime story means
The Power of Words in African Verbal Arts
Competition and Conflict as a Framework for Understanding Performance Culture among the Urban Anlo-Ewe
Popular Arts in Africa
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Discourse and its disclosures
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |