This book features a collection of essays and testimonials that provide new perspectives and incisive criticism on the writings and theatrical productions of Nigerian American author, director, and theorist Femi Euba.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Crossroads of generational thinking 1. The Man Died: Wole Soyinka's imprisonment and the Yoruba trickster tale in Femi Euba's Tortoise! 2. Ritual and theatre at the crossroads of poetics, politics and epistemology: Femi Euba (and WS) 3. Esu's crossroads and Ogun's crossing over: Intercultural creativity and postcolonial futurity in the theater of Femi Euba 4. Words to choreograph: Ritual archetypes of/at Esu's crossroads 5. Camwood: African and African American identities at the crossroads 6. Myth, performance, and creation: The achievement of Femi Euba 7. A conversation between Femi Euba, Wole Soyinka and Biodun Jeyifo 8. Globalization and a grain of salt: Reflections of a participating emigrant-playwright