Publikation:

"Why didn't you just stay where you were, a relic in the memory of poets?" : Yoruban ritual and sororal commonality in Fémi Òsófisan's 'Tègónni: An African Antigone'

Lade...
Vorschaubild

Dateien

Wald_2-kko0l8iefon86.pdf
Wald_2-kko0l8iefon86.pdfGröße: 195.83 KBDownloads: 242

Datum

2021

Autor:innen

Herausgeber:innen

Kontakt

ISSN der Zeitschrift

Electronic ISSN

ISBN

Bibliografische Daten

Verlag

Schriftenreihe

Auflagebezeichnung

ArXiv-ID

Internationale Patentnummer

Angaben zur Forschungsförderung

Projekt

Open Access-Veröffentlichung
Open Access Green
Core Facility der Universität Konstanz

Gesperrt bis

Titel in einer weiteren Sprache

Publikationstyp
Zeitschriftenartikel
Publikationsstatus
Published

Erschienen in

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Sage Publications. 2021, 56(2), pp. 201-217. ISSN 0021-9894. eISSN 1741-6442. Available under: doi: 10.1177/0021989418773142

Zusammenfassung

This article discusses Fémi Òsófisan’s transnational play Tègònni: An African Antigone in the context of other African and European rewritings of Sophocles’ Antigone. The article argues that Òsófisan employs Yoruban ritual for a postcolonial revision of Greek tragedy that constructs an alternative tradition to the Western claim of Antigone as a foundational text of European democratic identity. Through innovative framing and by multiplying the protagonist, the play emphasizes that Sophocles’ Antigone depends on theatrical reincarnations in order to survive. At the same time, the play’s setting in colonial Yorubaland and its cross-racial casting allowed for oblique criticism of the Nigerian leaders of the late 1990s. In contrast to the usual reception of Antigone as a solitary, heroic martyr who scorns her sister’s apolitical cowardice, Òsófisan presents Tègònni’s rebellion as a collective female movement, thus rewriting Ismene’s role. Òsófisan’s portrayal of sisterly solidarity is paralleled in recent feminist readings and literary rewritings of Sophocles’ Antigone which seek to redeem Ismene as a political agent and to explore interpretations beyond the rejection of female commonality that had been taken as typical of Antigone the character and the play itself.

Zusammenfassung in einer weiteren Sprache

Fachgebiet (DDC)
800 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft

Schlagwörter

Fémi Òsófisan, Ismene, postcolonial rewritings, Sophocles’ Antigone, Tègònni: An African Antigone, Yoruba ritual

Konferenz

Rezension
undefined / . - undefined, undefined

Forschungsvorhaben

Organisationseinheiten

Zeitschriftenheft

Zugehörige Datensätze in KOPS

Zitieren

ISO 690WALD, Christina, 2021. "Why didn't you just stay where you were, a relic in the memory of poets?" : Yoruban ritual and sororal commonality in Fémi Òsófisan's 'Tègónni: An African Antigone'. In: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Sage Publications. 2021, 56(2), pp. 201-217. ISSN 0021-9894. eISSN 1741-6442. Available under: doi: 10.1177/0021989418773142
BibTex
@article{Wald2021didnt-43045,
  year={2021},
  doi={10.1177/0021989418773142},
  title={"Why didn't you just stay where you were, a relic in the memory of poets?" : Yoruban ritual and sororal commonality in Fémi Òsófisan's 'Tègónni: An African Antigone'},
  number={2},
  volume={56},
  issn={0021-9894},
  journal={The Journal of Commonwealth Literature},
  pages={201--217},
  author={Wald, Christina}
}
RDF
<rdf:RDF
    xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:bibo="http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/"
    xmlns:dspace="http://digital-repositories.org/ontologies/dspace/0.1.0#"
    xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
    xmlns:void="http://rdfs.org/ns/void#"
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#" > 
  <rdf:Description rdf:about="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/rdf/resource/123456789/43045">
    <dcterms:issued>2021</dcterms:issued>
    <dcterms:hasPart rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/123456789/43045/1/Wald_2-kko0l8iefon86.pdf"/>
    <dcterms:available rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">2018-08-09T12:24:20Z</dcterms:available>
    <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
    <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/rdf/resource/123456789/34438"/>
    <dc:rights>terms-of-use</dc:rights>
    <dc:contributor>Wald, Christina</dc:contributor>
    <dc:date rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">2018-08-09T12:24:20Z</dc:date>
    <void:sparqlEndpoint rdf:resource="http://localhost/fuseki/dspace/sparql"/>
    <dspace:isPartOfCollection rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/rdf/resource/123456789/34438"/>
    <foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://localhost:8080/"/>
    <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/rdf/resource/123456789/38"/>
    <dspace:hasBitstream rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/123456789/43045/1/Wald_2-kko0l8iefon86.pdf"/>
    <dcterms:rights rdf:resource="https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/"/>
    <dspace:isPartOfCollection rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/rdf/resource/123456789/38"/>
    <bibo:uri rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/123456789/43045"/>
    <dcterms:abstract xml:lang="eng">This article discusses Fémi Òsófisan’s transnational play Tègònni: An African Antigone in the context of other African and European rewritings of Sophocles’ Antigone. The article argues that Òsófisan employs Yoruban ritual for a postcolonial revision of Greek tragedy that constructs an alternative tradition to the Western claim of Antigone as a foundational text of European democratic identity. Through innovative framing and by multiplying the protagonist, the play emphasizes that Sophocles’ Antigone depends on theatrical reincarnations in order to survive. At the same time, the play’s setting in colonial Yorubaland and its cross-racial casting allowed for oblique criticism of the Nigerian leaders of the late 1990s. In contrast to the usual reception of Antigone as a solitary, heroic martyr who scorns her sister’s apolitical cowardice, Òsófisan presents Tègònni’s rebellion as a collective female movement, thus rewriting Ismene’s role. Òsófisan’s portrayal of sisterly solidarity is paralleled in recent feminist readings and literary rewritings of Sophocles’ Antigone which seek to redeem Ismene as a political agent and to explore interpretations beyond the rejection of female commonality that had been taken as typical of Antigone the character and the play itself.</dcterms:abstract>
    <dc:creator>Wald, Christina</dc:creator>
    <dcterms:title>"Why didn't you just stay where you were, a relic in the memory of poets?" : Yoruban ritual and sororal commonality in Fémi Òsófisan's 'Tègónni: An African Antigone'</dcterms:title>
  </rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>

Interner Vermerk

xmlui.Submission.submit.DescribeStep.inputForms.label.kops_note_fromSubmitter

Kontakt
URL der Originalveröffentl.

Prüfdatum der URL

Prüfungsdatum der Dissertation

Finanzierungsart

Kommentar zur Publikation

Allianzlizenz
Corresponding Authors der Uni Konstanz vorhanden
Internationale Co-Autor:innen
Universitätsbibliographie
Ja
Begutachtet
Ja
Diese Publikation teilen