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- Title: An Interface of the Old and the New: Creating the Conscious Nigerian Via an Interrogation of Sophocles' Antigone in Osofisan's Tegonni (Femi Osofisan) (Critical Essay)
- Author : Nebula
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 375 KB
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I Critical study of ancient dramatic texts aims at educing among other things, possible cultural kinship between the world of antiquity and the modern. Such studies draw attention to the way in which antiquity can function as agent and catalyst in the process of cultural change and exchange. In line with the above, Greek tragedy has been adapted and interpreted in several forms globally. Indeed, African dramatists have found an affinity between Europe and the continent, in terms of cultural diversity and specificity, prompting Hardwick (1) (2003) to observe that "Greek drama in performance... acts as an agent of transformation enabling us to experience simultaneously and in tension, different cultural perspectives and aspects of being. This capacity is partly a function of Greek drama's creation of critical distance between ancient and modern, early modern, modern and post modern traditions." This transformation by the way is a manifestation of the ways in which modern performance is structured, especially in the adaptation and staging of Greek tragedy by African dramatists, and in this case Femi Osofisan's Tegonni. There is a parallel between Greek theater and the so called 'sacred spaces' of performance. Osofisan's adaptation of the Greek text interacts with the dramatist's own cultural and mythic backdrop, and his performance culture. This aptly situates his works as 'intercultural' (2) (Allain.2002.9).