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Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme's The Reign of Wazobia
- Author(s):
- Kanika Batra (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, CLCS Global Anglophone, LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, Postcolonial Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
- Subject(s):
- African literature, Theater, Africa, African drama, Applied anthropology
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- drama, Gender studies, Postcolonialism, transnational, Nigeria, African theatre, Dramatic genre
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6KC06
- Abstract:
- Nigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah (1987) in contrast to the exploration of polygamy in Nigerian-American dramatist Tess Onwueme’s early play The Reign of Wazobia (1988), written a year after Chinua Achebe’s novel. As a third generation African writer, and one whose work is less well recognized than other African novelists and playwrights, Onwueme occupies a relatively marginal role in the Nigerian and African literary canon. Nevertheless her work facilitates an analysis of neocolonialism, though in contrast to Achebe’s realist narrative, her evocation of myth and tradition appears to take the discussion into a pre-colonial past as in many of Wole Soyinka’s plays.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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