NEW HISTORICISM AND CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN DRAMA: A STUDY OF SOYINKA’S DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMAN AND OSOFISAN’S MOROUNTODUN

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dc.contributor.authorANAZA, Ohida Herbert Otohinoyi
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-16T10:42:06Z
dc.date.available2019-09-16T10:42:06Z
dc.date.issued2018-08
dc.descriptionA DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF ARTS DEGREE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES FACULTY OF ARTS AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA NIGERIAen_US
dc.description.abstractThis work explores New Historicists aesthetics in Soyinka‟s Death and the King’s Horseman and Osofisan‟s Morountodun and brings to the fore not only concepts specific for the field of literature seen from a New Historicist perspective, but also aspects that circle around reconstructive quality encountered in the selected dramatic texts, thus proving that the approach of New Historicism can indeed make itself distinguishable in the contemporary Nigerian literary sphere.The act of reconstruction in literature has always been an important subject among literary scholars. Reconstruction is a huge interest for New Historicism, one of the modern approaches in the field of literary criticism. In New Historicist analysis, not only history affects literature, but also literature could be effective in understanding history and thus the relationship between history and literature is reciprocal. Thus, the dramatic texts have been analysed in relation to the social and cultural contexts from which they emanated. The study is a content-based analysis set in line with the qualitative research method of the humanities to explore historical reconstructions in the selected dramatic texts of Soyinka and Osofisan. The research finds: That the selected play-texts show the place of African historiography in contemporary Nigerian drama. That New Historicist theory has become a popular area of study in the literary field and has grown through rigorous research works. That works of New Historicist orientation are strongly in their challenge of social and cultural reconstructions. That the New Historicists are interested in writing new history. That the relation between historical events and contemporary literature needs to be analyzed further to prepare a landing ground for the future. The dissertation concludes that the dramatic texts revisit the past with the intention influencing the present as well the future.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/11897
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectNEW HISTORICISM,en_US
dc.subjectCONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN DRAMA,en_US
dc.subjectSTUDY OF SOYINKA’S DEATH,en_US
dc.subjectKING’S HORSEMAN,en_US
dc.subjectOSOFISAN’S MOROUNTODUN,en_US
dc.titleNEW HISTORICISM AND CONTEMPORARY NIGERIAN DRAMA: A STUDY OF SOYINKA’S DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMAN AND OSOFISAN’S MOROUNTODUNen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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