The Man Died: Wole Soyinka’s imprisonment and the Yoruba trickster tale in Femi Euba’s Tortoise!

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I. Osagie
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ABSTRACT Nigerian playwright Femi Euba utilizes the Yoruba trickster tale in his one-act play Tortoise! to satirize the imprisonment of Wole Soyinka during the Nigerian civil war of the 1960s. This essay draws parallels between Euba’s play and Soyinka’s play, The Detainee, which critiques the imprisonment of Chief Obafemi Awolowo by the Nigerian federal government a few years before Soyinka himself fell victim to the same alleged crime of treason. This essay argues that Euba’s use of the trickster tale as a logical genre in theater is grounded in the communal space of Yoruba belief systems that encourage a collective response to social and political crises. The essay also traces modernity’s fraught challenges in the guise of neo-colonial structures, such as the prison system, and the ways in which traditional modes of story-telling become avenues for apprehending, addressing, and contesting global forces at work through the legacies of colonialism.
人死了:费米·尤巴的《乌龟》中全索因卡的监禁和约鲁巴骗子的故事!
尼日利亚剧作家Femi Euba在他的独幕剧《乌龟!》讽刺在20世纪60年代尼日利亚内战期间,沃勒·索因卡被监禁。本文将尤巴的戏剧与索因卡的戏剧《被拘留者》进行比较,后者批评尼日利亚联邦政府在索因卡本人因同样的叛国罪而成为受害者之前几年将奥巴费米·阿沃洛沃酋长监禁。本文认为,尤巴将骗子故事作为戏剧的逻辑类型,是基于约鲁巴信仰体系的公共空间,这种信仰体系鼓励集体应对社会和政治危机。这篇文章还追溯了现代性在新殖民主义结构(如监狱系统)的伪装下所面临的令人担忧的挑战,以及传统的讲故事模式如何成为通过殖民主义遗产来理解、解决和对抗全球力量的途径。
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