Folklore and Contemporary Realities in Death and the King’s Horseman and Death, Not A Redeemer

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dc.contributor.authorAfolayan, Kayode Niyi
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-17T10:36:03Z
dc.date.available2021-06-17T10:36:03Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThe benefits of folklore to African playwrights have been very immense. From what began like mere statements of aesthetics, contemporary African playwrights have gone to seek the relevance of primordial forms to the challenges of their societies. This essay contemporizes Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman (1975) and Hope Eghagha’s Death, not A Redeemer (1998) within these tensions that raise questions on the validity of cultural modes and the needs for mediation. The writer identifies the inevitable negative impacts of contact on cultural stasis and, chronicling the lodes of contemporary challenges of African states as typified in Eghagha’s play, asserts the expediency of re-invention.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipPrivateen_US
dc.identifier.citationAfolayan, K.N. (2015). Folklore and Contemporary Realities in Death and the King’s Horseman and Death, Not A Redeemer. In In Theory and In Practice Engaging the Writings of Hope Eghagha. Patrick Oloko (ed). 61- 74. Houston, USA: Published by African Diaspora Press.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/6126
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherHouston, USA: Published by African Diaspora Pressen_US
dc.subjectFolkloreen_US
dc.subjectworldviewen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary African dramaen_US
dc.subjectEghaghaen_US
dc.titleFolklore and Contemporary Realities in Death and the King’s Horseman and Death, Not A Redeemeren_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US

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