Traditional Cleansing Rites and State Reconstruction in Contemporary Nigerian Drama
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2003
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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.
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Political Concerns, Artistic concerns, Tradition of purification, Dramatists, Playwrights
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Adeoti, Gbemisola Remi (2003). Traditional Cleansing Rites and State Reconstruction in Contemporary Nigerian Drama. In Ogundele, Wole and Adeoti, Gbemisola (eds.) IBA: essays on African literature in honour of Oyin Ogunba. Ile-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University Press.