A dance on contrasting platforms: African tradition and revolutionary aesthetics in Esiaba Irobi’s plays
Igbo African tradition, characterised mainly by rituals and myths, has often been regarded as too codified and therefore a dead end of sorts, as M.J.C. Echeruo observes in his article “The dramatic limits of Igbo ritual” (1981). But Esiaba Irobi, in his plays of revolutionary aesthetics, decodes th...
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Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association
2017-05-01
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Online Access: | https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/2379 |