Gender and time in Ahmed Yerima’s Aetu

dc.contributor.authorOloruntoba, Albert Olatunde
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-14T10:37:23Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the effects of time and historical change on Nigerian feminist literature by focusing on the work of a prolific contemporary Nigerian playwright, Ahmed Yerima. The history of Yerima’s writing reveals a shift from plays with historical themes to plays which engage explicitly with questions of gender and gender-related oppression. In this way, his writing trajectory provides one example of the growing importance of gender concerns in Nigerian literature. The article goes further to present an exegesis of one of Yerima’s gender-focused plays, namely Aetu, published in 2007. It looks at the play’s engagement with the way in which traditional Yoruba practices fix women in socially subordinate positions. It also considers the play’s handling of time in relation to feminist concerns with time and non-linearity.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractHierdie artikel ondersoek die uitwerking van tyd en historiese verandering op Nigeriese feminis-literatuur deur te fokus op die werk van ’n produktiewe kontemporêre Nigeriese dramaturg, Ahmed Yerima. Die geskiedenis van Yerima se skryfwerk toon ’n verskuiwing van toneelstukke met historiese temas na toneel wat eksplisiet met vrae van gender en gender-verwante onderdrukking handel. Sodoende dien die verloop van sy skryfwerk as voorbeeld van die toenemende belangrikheid van gender-aangeleent-hede in Nigeriese literatuur. Die artikel gaan verder en bied ’n eksegese van een van Yerima se gender-gefokusde toneelstukke, naamlik Aetu, wat in 2007 gepubliseer is. Die artikel verken hoe die toneelstuk omgaan met die manier waarop tradisionele Yoruba-gebruike vroue in sosiaal-ondergeskikte posisies hou. Dit beskou ook die toneelstuk se hantering van tyd met betrekking tot feministiese gemoeidheid met tyd en nie-lineariteit.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentEnglishen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2020-06-14
dc.description.librarianhj2019en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjls20en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationAlbert Olatunde Oloruntoba (2018) Gender and Time in Ahmed Yerima’s Aetu, Journal of Literary Studies, 34:4, 97-109, DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2018.1538082.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0256-4718 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1753-5387 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/02564718.2018.1538082
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/69125
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_ZA
dc.rights© JLS/TLW. This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 1-12, 2018; doi : 10.1080/02564718.2018.1466446. Journal of Literary Studies is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjls20.en_ZA
dc.subjectTimeen_ZA
dc.subjectHistorical changeen_ZA
dc.subjectNigerian feminist literatureen_ZA
dc.subjectAhmed Yerimaen_ZA
dc.titleGender and time in Ahmed Yerima’s Aetuen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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