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    Dynamics of Distancing in Nigerian Drama. A Functional Approach to Metatheatre
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    491_9783838208428
    Nadia Anwar presents a compelling reading framework for the study and analysis of selected post-independence Nigerian dramas, using the conceptual parameters of metatheatre, a theatrical strategy which foregrounds the process of play-making by breaking the dramatic illusion. She argues that distancing, as a function of metatheatre, creates a balanced theatrical experience and environment in terms of the emotive and cognitive levels of reception of a particular performance. Anwars book is the first in-depth study of the concept of metatheatre with reference to Nigerian drama including Wole Soyinkas Death and the Kings Horseman (1975) and King Baabu (2002), Ola Rotimis Kurunmi (1971) and Hopes of the Living Dead (1988), Femi Osofisans The Chattering and the Song (1977) and Women of Owu (2006), Esiaba Irobis Hangmen Also Die (1989), and Stella Dia Oyedepos A Play That Was Never to Be (1998). The perspectives of Bertolt Brecht (1936), Thomas J. Scheff (1963), and other theoreticians of dramatic distancing and metatheatre are used in the analyses and, where required, challenged through appropriate contextual and theoretical adjustments. The book is the first attempt to illustrate how Brechtian approach to the display and generation of emotions can be revised through Scheffs model of emotional balance.
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