Browsing by Author "Adeoti, Gbemisola Remi"

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    Devaluation Aesthetics in Soyinka's Requiem for a Futurologist
    (1997) Adeoti, Gbemisola Remi
    Quite a great deal, once is aware, has been written on Wole Soyinka's satiric corpus. Many more would still have to be written because like other great writings. Soyinka's works are such that rarely court exhaustive and decisive interpretations. It is observable from many available studies dealing with Soyinka's satire that not much attention has been given to the formal and constitutive elements of this literary mode. They are either ignored or accorded little significance.
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    Drama and the Quest for Democracy in Post-Military Nigeria
    (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa., 2005) Adeoti, Gbemisola Remi
    This chapter focuses on the crucial intersection between the goals of politics and drama. While it identifies certain factors militating against the development of a genuinely democratic polity in postcolonial Nigeria, it highlights the prospects for a more democratically engaged dramaturgy and a reformed polity where democracy thrives and endures.
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    Literary Drama, Literacy and the Quest for Democracy in Nigeria: An Appraisal
    (2002) Adeoti, Gbemisola Remi
    This paper, therefore, appraises Nigeria's literary engagement in drama with the democratic imperative. Specifically, it discusses the genre's efforts at information (especially political) dissemination –a cardinal goal of literacy toward democratic changes. The discussion is done within the context of a perceived convergence of interest in the interface of literacy, drama and democracy.
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    The Tortoisean Archetype: A Theory of Satire in Nigerian Drama
    (1998) Adeoti, Gbemisola Remi
    This paper attempt to stimulate literary discourse in the direction of a theoretical investigation of satiric drama by Nigerian playwrights and make certain suggestions, which will serve as starting step: towards a theory of satire in Nigerian drama. This will be done, taking due cognizance of the wide variety of Nigerians' indigenous cultural artistic experience.
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    Traditional Cleansing Rites and State Reconstruction in Contemporary Nigerian Drama
    (2003) Adeoti, Gbemisola Remi
    Sometimes, the playwrights creatively explore aspects of indigenous cultures to articulate their political and artistic concerns. One significant aspect of indigenous culture explored in contemporary drama is the tradition of purification. What is purification and how is it effected in different traditional societies? What are the religious, political and artistic purposes of cleansing rites in such societies? How are the rites creatively appropriated to achieve socio-political ends in the selected plays? What lessons do the rites and the dramatized reality have for state re-construction in modem Nigeria? These are some of the pertinent questions that the chapter addresses.