Title: Portraits for an Eagle: Essays in Honour of Femi Osofisan by Bayreuth African Studies Series (BASS).
Edited by Sola Adeyemi ISBN: 3-927510-95-5 (ISSN: 0178-0034) Format: Print 259 pp. 210x145mm soft €29.95 / £20.99 / $39.00 Published June 2006
Description: A series of twenty critical essays, tributes and an interview examining the life and work of one of Africa’s foremost playwrights, Femi Osofisan
Contents:
Preface - Sola Adeyemi
Chronology of Femi Osofisan’s Life
Friendship - and the Revolutionary Ethos (For Femi Osofisan; and for Our Mothers) - Biodun Jeyifo
Femi Osofisan, Some Personal Memories - Alain Ricard
Subverting the Proscenium: A Brief Note on Femi Osofisan's Stagecraft - Martin Banham
Celebrating Osofisan at Sixty - Muyiwa Awodiya
A Tribute to Femi Osofisan – the Alchemist of Cognition, at Sixty - Olu Obafemi
Interview with Femi Osofisan - Victor Aire & Kanchana Ugbabe
Antigone and After Antigone: Some Issues Raised by Femi Osofisan's Dramaturgy in Tegonni - James Gibbs
Trojan Women in Yorubaland: Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu - Felix Budelmann
Antigone's Boat: the Colonial and the Postcolonial in Tegonni: an African Antigone by Femi Osofisan - Barbara Goff
Making Colours, Remaking Life: Subversion in the Writing of Femi Osofisan - Sola Adeyemi
Representations of Horror: the Rwandan Genocide and Femi Osofisan's 'Reel, Rwanda!' - Chris Dunton
Centring The Marginal'? Notes Toward a Query of Women and Gender in the Drama of Femi Osofisan - Tejumola Olaniyan
Fabulous Theatre: A Re-Assessment of Osofisan's Revolutionary Dialectics - Olu Obafemi & Abdullahi S. Abubakar
Oral Traditions and Contemporary History in Femi Osofisan's Once Upon Four Robbers - Ayo Kehinde
Mythological and Patriarchal Constraints: The Tale of Osofisan's Revolutionary Women - Victor Ukaegbu
A Debate on Tactics for the Best Way to Overthrow Vile Regimes: Osofisan writes back to Ngugi and Mugo - Jane Plastow
Riding Osofisan's Another Raft through the Sea of Nigerian History: Theatre for Agency - Yvette Hutchinson
The Poetics of Possibility: A Study of Femi Osofisan's The Chattering and the Song and Morountodun - Harry Garuba
Rhetorical Strategies in Okinba Launko's Minted Coins - Amen Uhunmwangho
Osofisan's Theatre and the Emerging-Emergent Controversy within the Re-creative Theatre Tradition in Nigeria - Sunday Enessi Ododo
Contacts: soladeyemi@biksafe.co.uk ; Eckhard.breitinger@uni-bayreuth.de
URL: on-line catalogue: www.breitinger.com
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