TY  - BOOK
AU  - Osagie,Iyunolu
AU  - Lowe,John Wharton
TI  - African Modernity and the Philosophy of Culture in the Works of Femi Euba
T2  - Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving Series
SN  - 9781498545679
AV  - PR9387.9.E8.O834 2017 
U1  - 820.900914 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
KW  - Euba, Femi--Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter One: Archetypes of Modernity -- Chapter Two: Tradition, Modernity, and the Axiological Present in The Gulf and The Eye of Gabriel -- Chapter Three: Black Theatre and the Politics of Adaptation in Dionysus of the Holocaust -- Chapter Four: Who Pulled the Trigger? Ritual Endings in Femi Euba's A Riddle of the Palms, Crocodiles, and The Chameleon -- Chapter Five: Esu as Shape Shifting Word -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
N2  - This book examines the creative and critical works of Nigerian playwright and novelist Femi Euba to demonstrate the place and function of African cultures in modernity. The author makes the case for the vibrancy of such cultures in the shaping and constitution of the modern world
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ER  -