عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
LA120416
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Sweetness in an Age Caught between Anti-Stoic Regret and Sisyphurian Cynicism
General Material Designation
[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
Fredrick Mbogo
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This paper makes a comparative study of the dialogue found in John Sibi-Okumu's Role Play with that in Francis Imbuga's Betrayal in the City. It stems from the claim that both plays situate characters in spaces, through their dialogue, where escape becomes vital. Essentially, the paper focuses on characters either in regret, as Mzee in Role Play, or seeped in an urgency of correcting mistakes made within the political arena, as is the case in conversations between Mosese and Jere in Betrayal in the City. Mzee thinks himself a failure, an individual who has stood by as political decision after another have led to the mess he now finds his countrymen in. On the other hand, Mosese and Jere are in a dialogue that at first seems to suggest a Sisyphurian kind of cynicism, but which morphs into a kind of exhortation for action against oppressing circumstances. The question then is whether a director's possible interpretation can capture the depth of Mzee's agony while delivering an aesthetic presentation or whether as in the case of Imbuga's Mosese and Jere, the mood swings from cynicism to agitation can muzzle the dulce, or sweetness, of the presentation.
SET
Date of Publication
2020
Physical description
193-208
Title
Matatu
Volume Number
51/1
International Standard Serial Number
1875-7421
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
African Studies
Subject Term
Comparative Studies & World Literature
Subject Term
Criticism & Theory
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Cultural History
Subject Term
Imbuga
Subject Term
Kenyan drama
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Literature & Culture
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Literature and Cultural Studies
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Postcolonial Literature & Culture
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regret
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Sibi-Okumu
Subject Term
staging politics
Subject Term
stoicism
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Fredrick Mbogo
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
10.1163/18757421-05101007
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب p
[Article]
275578
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