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Before Us a Savage God: Self-Fashioning the Nation in Yorùbá Performance
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 55, Number 2, Summer 2011 (T210)
- pp. 73-85
- Article
- Additional Information
The concept of identity is in a state of evolution in Yorùbá society, and this evolution works itself out in praise poetry. This poetry is performed in a variety of contexts, and each performance context contributes something distinctive to Yorùbá modernity.